In post 17, DiogenesLamp wrote: "Another person who gets it. Ping to you other guys who don't want to believe it."
In this post, Tau Food writes: I don't agree. I don't think that those post Civil War amendments granted the federal government "near limitless power" and, for example, I don't think that the 14th Amendment granted the federal courts with the power to find that there exists a Constitutional right to homosexual marriage.
Are you sure that the right to homosexual marriage was envisaged by those who adopted the 14th Amendment? Isn't it possible that courts have exceeded their power and that they have misinterpreted that amendment? ;-)
It was most certainly NOT envisioned by the framers of the 14th amendment. Neither was "Anchor Babies" and Authorizing non natural citizen Presidents, or kicking religion out of public schools and government buildings/ceremonies.
But this is what happens when you write a bunch of sentimental crap with no clearly defined limits or boundaries, and then force it down people's throats at the point of a gun.
The courts are free to interpret ambiguity and the removal of restraints on their power in any manner they so wish.
The Framers of the 14th were idiots compared to the founders. They tried to do too much and they didn't work hard enough to get the meaning and intent right.
It is a gobbledygook soup, with predictable bad consequences. It is also a consequence of the civil war empowerment of the radical Republicans who were the "liberals" of their day.
The sneaky way the “equal protection” clause was written allowed for it to be interpreted as granting near limitless power to federal government.
Coupled with the commerce clause, the income tax amendment and the amendment to allow direct elections of Senators and the power of the states was completely neutered.
Then partisan politics rendered the built in checks on the presidencies power by the legislative branch obsolete and the destruction of our Republic was nearly complete.
All that remains is for the now all powerful president to destroy the courts and the transformation to a dictatorship will be complete.