her long nap can't come fast enough
Posted on 07/08/2018 12:45:51 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Justice Ginsburg: “I Would Not Look to the U.S. Constitution” Posted By Roger Aliman on July 3, 2018 Conservatives are often ridiculed for criticizing activist judges who fail to respect the Constitution. We are told that it is not conservative originalists (labeled ignorant and extremist) but rather enlightened liberal judges—with their nuanced understanding of constitutional penumbras—who truly respect the spirit of the Constitution
Conservatives, however, have good reason to be skeptical of the left’s “respect’’ for the Constitution. Just last week, for example, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an Egyptian TV station that she would not recommend the U.S. Constitution as model for Egypt’s new government. The problem, you see, is that the U.S. Constitution is “a rather old constitution.” Ginsburg suggested that Egyptians should look instead to the Constitution of South Africa or perhaps the European Convention on Human Rights. All these are “much more recent than the U.S. Constitution.”
Ginsburg’s comments echo those by Washington University professor David Law, who published a study with Mila Versteeg on the U.S. Constitution’s declining infuence worldwide. In an interview, Law unfavorably compared the Constitution to “Windows 3.1”—outdated and unattractive in a world of sleek and sexy modern constitutions. Such obsession with the age of the Constitution is both absurd and irrelevant.
For one, the Constitution is still among the shortest and most elegantly written constitutions in the world. By contrast, South Africa’s constitution is well over 100 pages long, ×lled with tables, schedules, and such stirring passages as detailed provisions for a Financial and Fiscal Commission:
“A. National legislation referred to in subsection (1) must provide for the participation of – a. the Premiers in the compilation of a list envisaged in subsection (1) (b); and b. organized local government in the compilation of a list envisaged in subsection (1) (c).” And you thought the U.S. Constitution was hard to read. Equally ridiculous is the claim that the Constitution is too antiquated to apply to the modern world. The principles of the Constitution, although ×rst articulated centuries ago, are not tied to the material conditions of a bygone age. They rest on that most solid and enduring of all foundations: human nature.
The Constitution itself contains no policy prescriptions. Rather, it is a short, elegantly written document that create a framework for a free people to confront the political questions of their times. Of course, the real reason progressives swoon over South Africa’s constitution is that it goes far beyond merely establishing a framework for government and guarantees progressive policies—for example, by requiring legislation that prevents pollution and ecological degradation. In other words, the left’s real discontent with the U.S. Constitution is that it does not require Americans to adopt a progressive government and expansive welfare state that provides for every “right” social scientists can justify.
Americans should be very wary of those who would seek to upend the Constitution from the grounding in human nature that has allowed it to endure for more than two centuries and would transform it into an instrument devoted to policies of passing whimsy!
her long nap can't come fast enough
I loathe that woman more than probably any other American. If The Good Lord would grant us providence once again...
We need Mike Lee on the court.
He is a politician.
Loyal and beholden everyone with money.
...and most of all, Mark Levin says we need him.
Puke
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...and who asked you Mark
This narcoleptic clown cannot die soon enough.
Because recent is always better. what a legal mind. LOL!
That kind of crap right there is why Trump won.
Keep it up, libs, ya’ll are doing just great.
BTW, where’s the MadMaxiePad lately?
Surely the future lib POTUS has something to say.
MaxiPad, where are you??????
Why start now?
Thanks to Republican senators who voted to confirm all three female Marxists.
How dare any of you not vote for a Republican president’s choice!
SCOTUS meeting with a foreign power?
Impeachment time.
Some hold their oath more dear than others. Commies have no honor, therefore it’s not a problem when they lie when taking an oath.
“Constitution of South Africa “
The one that allows blacks to massacre whites and take their lands?? THAT South African constitution??
She looks toward Hell as she nods to sleep during work.
I agree, start impeachment proceedings based on “Breach of Oath”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/the-eternal-meaning-of-independence-day-2-4.php
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
-Calvin Coolidge on the Declaration of Independence
This article while correct in its facts is also quite old. Egypt’s new govt is three, four, five years old? And while it speaks volumes about RBG’s extra constitutional outlook, until she passes on she aint going anywhere.
Wait a sec.. did she do this again or something ?
This happened YEARS ago.
Who WOKE her up???
...or send in the D-squad. We are okay with that, too.
Is that as harsh as liberal decisions that have cost the lives of millions of Americans?
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