Scalia says judges shouldn't change Constitution

First Amendment Center ^ | 05/01/07

[expatguy]

LOL nobody Creates rights

[highball]

All laws infringe on someone's rights in some way. The Constitution laid out some agreed upon basic rights which we (the government, the people) will work to favor for each other. Freedom of speech versus freedom from hearing "offensive" speech. The Constitution doesn't say our government can't search us or our home, but places rules on what the government needs to do in order to do so.

It's why "Justice" is shown holding a balance, because enforcement of all man made laws involve weighing opposing interests.

What? "Freedom from hearing "offensive" speech"? That doesn't make any sense.

Look, you're making this much more complicated than it really is. Free men have rights. The Constitution was written to show exactly where the government can infringe upon those rights. It is a complete list of governmental powers, not a list of rights. If the government is not given the power in the Constitution to regulate something, then it has no authority to do so.

The Founders wrote it in very clear language, and I'm staggered that Scalia can't or doesn't want to see it.

[O Neill]

Well, that’s where the enumerated (limited) powers part comes in. I certainly don’t see anything about buttered popcorn (or popcorn of any flavor) in the Constitution do you?

You're right, it's not there (praise God!). All I ask is that if a right to buttered popcorn on demand IS ever recognized, it be done so by the People, through their Legislative Branch or by amending the Constitution, and NOT by a bunch of Judges peering ex-post-facto into the penumbra around the edges of the Constitution through horn-rimmed glasses as they sip Kool Aid in their chambers and formulate a final decision in the case of Roe v. Reddenbacher...

[LuxMaker]

"Why is this even debatable"

Because: "The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please." - Thomas Jefferson, 1819

[ronnie raygun]

You are so right! Thier like little brats who can’t get thier way so they stomp thier feet, whine and look for other deviate ways to get thier way! SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN OR WE’LL PUT YOU IN THE CORNER!