Posted on 04/28/2014 4:28:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here is a sample of constitutional amendments from nine Scotus blackrobes:
Helvering v. Davis. Congress can collect and distribute taxes to promote the general welfare. It opened the floodgates to income redistribution.
Wickard v. Filburn. Blew the commerce clause to pieces. Congress can regulated just about anything.
Whitman v. American Trucking Associations. Administrative agencies can pass regulations with the force of law.
Baker v. Carr. One man one vote democratized state legislatures in a fashion similar to the 17th Amendment.
There are probably dozens of other Scotus rulings that have effectively rewritten the constitution.
Yes I did, but the link in post#4 leads to your opinion to which you have a right of course
I’ve been meaning to praise you and your efforts for some time, now. I apologize for not doing so sooner. You’re doing great work and it is really critical work.
Hayek said this to Antony Fisher when Fisher told Hayek of his intent to run for politics and set Britain right:
Fisher: I share all your worries and concerns as expressed in The Road to Serfdom and I’m going to go into politics and put it all right.
Hayek: No you’re not! Society’s course will be changed only by a change in ideas. First you must reach the intellectuals, the teachers and writers, with reasoned argument. It will be their influence on society which will prevail, and the politicians will follow.
That’s a major part of what FR and people like you do. Talk radio is another outlet and now so are the various conservative blogs, twitter accts, Twitchy, etc. The Left understood this earlier than we did and took over the media and the schools. We can undo that, but we need to capture and shame the intellectuals with intelligent, well-reasoned argument.
We’ve crushed them on the 2nd Amendment such that you’ll not find a majority of legal scholars against our view of an individual right. They’re using a defensive withdrawal by simply working to limit that individual right, but nobody pretends that it isn’t an individual right. That victory alone, reopens the debate on the Bill of Rights and who or what is limited by it.
Brilliant job. Keep up the good works. You are making a difference. Don’t let the whiners slow you down. It’s easy to fret at your screen and hard to do something. You’re doing something and thank you!
She is the face of liberalism. I cannot think of the last conservative woman of her generation I’ve seen that looks like that.
Does anyone know of a conservative woman with that much inflammation?
How goes your efforts against nitwittery in Illinois?
Small progress. The nuttery is strong in this one. You might not believe it, but there are days, many days, I wish I lived in Michigan.
What we are reaching in this country is a banning of prejudicial views. To me not all prejudices are bad.
For example if I go out in my driveway and there is a dog there and he looks friendly I would go and pat him.
Because of my prejudice against coyotes, if I saw a coyote in my driveway I would not try to befriend it.
Now some would say that is not a good analogy because people are different than animals.
But my life experiences and documentation show to me some groups of people and neighborhoods are more dangerous to me than others. -Tom
<>there are days, many days, I wish I lived in Michigan.<>
Yikes!
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