To those who wonder why the Founding Fathers made the United States Constitution so difficult to amend, we commend the series the Boston Globe is publishing under the headline “Editing the Constitution.” It reckons that our national parchment “is undergoing massive changes in the Supreme Court” and that it’s “time to put the founding document in the hands of the people.”
Bah, humbug, we say. It adds up to one of the most cockamamie compendiums that’s ever been compiled in respect of the 8,000 or so words of the compact that every officer, judge, and legislator of the federal, state, and county governments must be bound by oath to support. If Geo. Washington, James Madison, and the boys ever happened onto this issue of the Globe, they’d fall out of their knee socks.
The series starts with a proposed rewrite of the first two amendments..............We know, we know, you are going to say this is impossible. Not even Orwell himself could recalculate the 2nd Amendment into a right to abortion. Well, the right to keep and bear arms comes out in the Globe as: “All people have the right to bodily autonomy consistent with the right of other people to the same, including the right to defend themselves against unlawful force and the right of self-determination in reproductive matters.”........
the Founders ......... feared the government they created. They foresaw that as the government expanded, it would begin to chafe under the restrictions the parchment places on Congress. And that the very freedom they granted in the First Amendment would enable a prosperous press to abet big government.......This forced the left to hide out in the emanations and penumbra of the Bill of Rights. With three new conservative justices, that will be more difficult........To Read More...
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