The Right colludes with the Left on the expanded interpretation of “commerce” in Wickard v. Filburn because that also allows the War on Drugs without a constitutional Prohibition amendment.
You won’t get other freedoms back until that alliance is ended.
Well, of course it’s “open to interpretation.” That’s a judge’s job: to “interpret” the law, just as the president’s job is to “execute” and Congress’ job to “legislate.” It being “open to interpretation” is trivial, and by no stretch means original intent is irrelevant. Original intent is precisely what they ought to be “interpreting,” since if the text does not mean what it meant when the law passed, there is no such thing as law.
Great quote!
The founding fathers were genius. The Constitution is a working mans, a simple to understand document that to the complete contrary was meant to be understandable. The ideas and the wording was well chosen, the complexity of some ideas profound, but the language and brevity was intentionally suscinct, simple, and understandable. It's a document that uses words like “shall not be infringed” not by accident. I think our Constitution is one of the most significant documents EVER to have been put to pen. That document has changed the world like none prior nor present.
Those that talk of a living document etc. do nothing other than undermine the spirit of it's intent. They through smoke and mirrors try to then interpret what they want. Our Constitution is what it is, and anyone with a high school education is able to sit down, read, and understand what it means. That's the way it should be. Once people can't understand the law, people will make the law into whatever they want it to mean to best benefit them. The law, our government itself will loose the basic foundation upon which it was built. There is no complex interpretation required nor vast wiggle room as some suggest. It's very black and white in what it intends to convey.
We really cannot trust those in government to restrict, reduce or otherwise diminish themselves, regardless of party. It won’t happen. It has to come from an angry population.