Posted on 03/09/2016 8:30:31 AM PST by C19fan
OUR NATION’S Founders elected not to restrict the Constitution’s fundamental guarantees to just one generation. Instead, they aimed to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” They took account of future generations by establishing an enduring guide to those principles most relevant to our nation’s fundamental challenges, including those arising centuries after the Constitution’s signing. Our nation’s outsized role in causing dangerous climate change presents such a fundamental problem.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
We argue that such federal actions infringe upon the fundamental guarantees of the Fifth Amendment, including the rights to life, liberty, property, and equal protection of the law.
Hansen has no clue between the difference between Negative and Positive. Hansen's argument would convert the Fifth Amendment into a Enabling Act giving the POTUS and/or the court dictatorial powers.
Sigh.
A deeply confused man...
Crackpot alert!
Meant Negative and Positive Rights...
I believe in freedom of the press. I also believe that dangerous psychotics should be institutionalized for the safety of themselves and others.
Such arguments make as much sense as legislating gravity.
There ain’t no “negative” or “positive” in God-given rights.
Why is this huckster, who is wasting atmospheric oxygen, being listened to? He’s no more credible than algore.
They have just about accomplished that goal. Which candidates are talking about reducing the size of and getting government out of the way vs. candidates who are promising to "fix" our problems?
As if these Boston Globe people gave a rats about the Constitution. Where was their outrage of the mass invasion of homes in Boston without a warrant—a clear violation of the Constitution.
My head starts hurting everytime I see that name...
Not going to read his idiotic pablum...
If future generations mattered would we be dumping trillions of dollars in debt on them?
I don’t think so. :)
“A deeply confused man...”
that 4 members of SCOTUS likely agree with, to our peril.
Maybe a different existence but not necessarily diminished. There is no divine right to stagnation.
If the consumer products you crave, are destroying the environment it be comes a little hypocritical to act all high and mighty.
Does he also believe in the Tooth Fairy? Santa? Easter Bunny?
It is beyond discouraging to realize that not only does stupid run this deep, but that that the population has been so “Idiocracy-fied” that fools that this actually write things that are read and believed by others.
But you have to give the Globe credit for trying a new -- albeit absurd -- approach.
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