Posted on 11/15/2009 10:32:33 AM PST by BGHater
The New York newspaperman says our founding document is especially vital today, in an age of expanding state power.
Seth Lipsky has a knack for seeing the bright side of things. A nearly 20-year veteran of this newspaper, including its editorial page, he cheerfully acknowledges the obvious: This is far from a golden age of free-market conservatism. Of President Obama, he tells me over lunch, "I sense that he has a very leftist, socialist-oriented worldview."
Yet this makes Mr. Lipsky anything but grim: "I for one find this very exciting. . . . We're just at a great moment."
Why? Because, he says, "America is in what I call a constitutional moment." Mr. Obama's efforts to expand government power raise basic questions about the constitutional limits of that power. "The enumerated-powers argument is enormous," Mr. Lipsky says. "It's just enormous, the ground that is open for contest here. . . . Right now, we're at a moment where we're not going to be able to turn to either the Congress or the executive branch for help on this." He believes "the only defense now, the only tool we have now, is the Constitution. That's why I call it a constitutional moment, as opposed to a political moment."
That makes it an auspicious moment for Mr. Lipsky's new book, "The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide." The U.S. Constitution is a brief document, taking up just 42 pages in a popular pocket-size edition from the Cato Institute. Mr. Lipsky expands it to 287 pages of 5 by 8 inches, by way of 327 lengthy footnotes in which he discusses each and every constitutional clause in the context of history, case law and current events.
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It may not be a legal thing but something awfully bloody where Americans are at arms against the government.
This happened about 230 years ago
Series doubtful there will ever be another armed revolution.
Not gonna happen. Too many Tory R’s and D’s.
We need a new Federalist Party.
>We need a new Federalist Party.
Don’t you mean Anti-Federalist?
This is pure, wishful crap.
The Constitution is a bunch of words which are being actively destroyed by this invalid Communist coup, and are a total unknown mystery to the vast majority of Americans.
The only actual defense we have is counter-force vis a vis the exercize of the 2nd Amendment.
That's the unpleasant truth. What we do with it is anyone's guess.
Oops. Really pays not to be in a hurry.
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