[jmc813]

The Federal War on Drugs is a direct result of "living Constitution" principles.

[robertpaulsen]

Just gotta stick in the WOD, dontcha?

Something to think about. Given our current USSC, how many of the amendments (excluding the first ten, of course) would we need today?

That is, how many of those issues (slavery, right to vote, taxes, etc.) would have been decided by some emanation in a penumbra, or "due process", or "right to privacy" or some such thing by today's USSC?

I'll say this -- we wouldn't have 27 of them.

Living constitution? Yes, by amendments. That's why they're allowed.

[tpaine]

jmc813 wrote:
The Federal War on Drugs [& guns] is a direct result of "living Constitution" principles.

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" -- The change from absolute to relativistic thinking was apparent by 1953, when Earl Warren became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Ten years later prayer was removed from public schools. A decade after that abortion on demand was legalized. -- -- Thankfully, our nation is capable of moving away from this dangerous philosophy. --- "



Yes indeed. Thankfully, some day we may be able to stop the war on drugs & guns, just as we have stopped the war on privacy & dogma.