[mtngrl@vrwc]

What I really need are examples where specific amendments to the Constitution have been affected. Thanks in advance for any help you are able to give me. I am off to work, but will check back in tonight.

[KDD]

Actually her main argument was that the Constitution was a flexible document and that the founding fathers knew that things would change and wanted the Constitution to be able to change along with the times.

"The establishment of our institutions," wrote President Monroe, "forms the most important epoch that history hath recorded. They extend unexampled felicity to the whole body of our fellow-citizens, and are the admiration of other nations. To preserve and hand them down in their utmost purity to the remotest ages will require the existence and practice of virtues and talents equal to those which were displayed in acquiring them. It is ardently hoped and confidently believed that these will not be wanting."

[Billthedrill]

I strongly recommend James Bovard's frightening little volume Lost Rights - the Destruction of American Liberty. I think the government will still allow you to purchase it...

[Vic3O3]

Habeas Corpus:

Bush Suspends Habeas Corpus: Legal Immigrants May Be Held Without Cause

Washington, DC--The Bush Administration today announced it is using its
powers under the National Emergency Act to suspend the right of habeas
corpus for all immigrants in the country, including legal immigrants,
meaning that any immigrant in the United States right now can be held
indefinitely by the police or government without trial or demonstration of
cause to hold them.

In short, all immigrants in the country are now subject to summary arrest.

The declaration by the Bush administration is being followed by a move in
Congress to grant the Justice Department the power to summarily detain any
immigrant in the United States, citizen or not, as a matter of law, and not
just in exceptional circumstances.

Though no one has yet suggested infringing the rights of US citizens, the
move is a frightening first step to a national tyranny, based on perpetual
suspension of the Constitution in the name of fighting perpetual war. The
US lived under such tyranny during the Civil War and World Wars I and II.

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[Aurelius]

I hope it doesn't take you as long as it did me to learn not to waste your time with that totatalitarian-fascist idiot Non-Sequitur (choosing such an appropriate screen name was probably the only halfway intelligent action in his life).

"I read the whole document over again and I can't find where smoking is a Constitutionally protected right. Sorry."

Can there be a notion more representative of the totalitarian fascist idiocy that informs our Al Gore and William Hamilton Clinton supporting liberal brethern more than this? If the Constitution doesn't specifically mention it as such, it isn't a right. Even the totalitarian-fascist Alexander Hamilton knew better than that.

[Old Professer]

Screw the multicultural crud, what is the point of the condensed milk?