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 judgeswith their nuanced understanding of constitutional penumbraswho truly respect the spirit of the Constitution
Conservatives, however, have good reason to be skeptical of the lefts 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 Egypts 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.
Ginsburgs comments echo those by Washington University professor David Law, who published a study with Mila Versteeg on the U.S. Constitutions declining infuence worldwide. In an interview, Law unfavorably compared the Constitution to Windows 3.1outdated 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 Africas 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 Africas constitution is that it goes far beyond merely establishing a framework for government and guarantees progressive policiesfor example, by requiring legislation that prevents pollution and ecological degradation. In other words, the lefts 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!
What she is saying is that she does not like the Constitution which espouses individual liberty and government limited by the will of the governed.
Were I interviewing her, I would ask her why those principles are old-fashioned as she claims. Is not Liberty timeless?
What an awesome response by Calvin Coolidge to the sort of doubts this old delusional supreme court aberration of blind justice has been since day one. Her efforts towards a completely ridiculous reasoning to destroy a simple understanding of who we are as a people are exposed by a great President who we simply do not celebrate enough.
She really, really is the Notorious RBG.
In other words, the oath you took was an utter lie?
Oaths mean nothing to leftists when they don’t comport with the left.
Fuching wrinkled bad of filth.
Not in good standing, Remove her ass from the bench.
Nothing but a DC! Time for her to go!
A rather old constitution.
Yes, yes it is Ruth. And brilliantly conceived, elegantly written and the foundation of the greatest country in the world.
I pity you, Justice.
But it's a 'living' oath!
I’ve read that Abe Lincoln is really sorry that he nominated Ruth Buzzy...
For any U.S. citizen not interested in looking to the U.S. Constitution,then let them move to a place that has a constitution they like. This would ESPECIALLY apply to those working for the government & who take an oath of office. Those individuals should be asked to leave.
Just think, if she passes away in her sleep like Justice Scalia, Trump would get a third appointee.
I dont think she will make it another two years.
Too funny - an old bag saying we shouldn't rely on old wisdom......
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