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  Harbeas1 month ago

  I think more states need to look at their constitutional rights a little closer. The Federal governments is getting involved tn too many things that should be controlled by the individual states.

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  raza91 month ago

  Congress needs to reread the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. They need to pay particular attention to the 10th Amendment.

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  smithichie1 month ago

  The 14th amendment is as much a part of the Constitution as the 10th is. Thomas Jefferson didn't intend for blacks or women to vote, nor did the Founders intend for Senators to be elected by popular vote, but what the Founders did intend was to give us a living and breathing document capable of change, which it has.

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    raza91 month ago

    Although the United States Constitution was by far the best ever written for the protection of liberty, with safeguards against the dangers of a democracy, it was flawed from the beginning. Instead of guaranteeing liberty equally for all people, the authors themselves yielded to the majority's demands that they compromise on the issue of slavery. The urge to accommodate majority opinion, while ignoring the principles of individual liberty, was a major flaw. Many of the Framers of the Bill of Rights believed that slavery violated the fundamental natural rights of African-Americans, a "theory that declared slavery to be a violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment....

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      raza91 month ago

      If you go back to the real purpose of the 14th, it is to prevent the state from treating Afro-Americans as second class citizens - so when in doubt, courts should keep that in mind (which of course they never do). With the federal judiciary focused more on promoting a social agenda than upholding the rule of law, Americans find themselves increasingly governed by men they did not elect and cannot remove from office.

      Our constitutional system was designed to restrain political power and place limits on the size and scope of government. Giving more authority over social matters to any branch of the federal government is a mistake, because a centralized government is unlikely to reflect local sentiment for long. Both political parties are guilty of ignoring the 9th and 10th amendments, and federalizing whole areas of law that constitutionally should be left up to states.

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        raza91 month ago

        Without a precise understanding and respect for the supreme law of the land, i.e., the Constitution, it no longer serves as the guide for the rule of law. In its place we have substituted the rule of man and the special interests.

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