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 In an interview, Law unfavorably compared the Constitution to “Windows 3.1”—outdated and unattractive in a world of sleek and sexy modern constitutions.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!
Agreed.
“Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholy inadequate to govern any other. - John Adams
This LIB fraud and loser has been living “weekend at bernie’s” for some time. What a pathetic disgrace.
With President Trump’s successful second pick complete, it may be enough to push gin farther into the demented state she currently exists in.
Though no doubt, as long as she can be pushed around on a stretcher with extreme life support, she will not retire.
RBG does not look to the Constitution at all, except to locate the loopholes. “Negative liberties” is not a concept at all, if you consider the State, a sort of secular deity, as superior in every way to individual responsibility and initiative.
But SOMEBODY has to decide things, it cannot all be by committee. No steering group has the necessary wisdom or even the manpower to make decisions from the top, without recognizing the opportunities that lie with simply allowing the individuals within the great body of people that make up any society, the liberty of choosing to improve their individual lot in life.
RBG, New Zealand beckons and calls to you to make that destination part of your bucket list. Retire and proceed to that glorious land you admire so much. And do it quickly and close up.
RBG may not have all that much time left.
good catch
I wouldn't either -- but for completely different reasons.
...The judge spouted that our Constitution is “a rather old constitution.”. Which of course she would know as she was there at the time...
I think she was on the steps of Constitution Hall as it was being voted on screaming, “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, this Constitution’s gotta go.”
True, but she was young then. Still giving blowjobs under the bleachers.
...Justice Ginsburg: “I Would Not Look to the U.S. Constitution...”
He suggestion to Egypt was actually made in 2012. But, I think she would say it again now.
THAT’S YOUR JOB B****.
That there be real impeachment bait.
I say we use her argument against her! LOL!
Jail for all judges who do not follow USA lawful law; especially USConstitution, the supreme law of USA.
USConstitution, defend it or perish.
We’ve spoken of that comment many times. In some respect, she might be right. Consider, if you will:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
...(John Adams)
Religious people = the single phrase most cannot agree upon.
Which religion?
What a goblin.
“Ginsburg “
It might be VERY interesting to see what actual transl;ation of her words and then what ‘Egyptian TV’ actually says about this judge.
Significant also that it was Egyptian judges sticking to THEIR countries Constitution facing down the coup by the muslim brotherhood and those other islamist usurpers.
The constitution is the OPPOSITE of what leftists want...it LIMITS the role of the federal government.
During confirmation, NPR called her “a moderate” and hid her ACLU ties,
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