[.cnI redruM]

There is some validity to that theory. I don't see the blodd-letting in the streets quite yet, but there is less and less civility in our political debate and more of what seems to be chicanery every year.

I could see us up against a major constitutinal crisis.

[Thane_Banquo]

Minnesota Democrats similarly bypassed the law, placing Walter Mondale on the ballot following the untimely death of Senator Paul Wellstone.

From what I remember of the case, this was actually provided for by Minnesota law, and thus the rule of law was indeed upheld.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

[Avoiding_Sulla]

A constitution places limits upon the governing body it legitimizes and of whose powers it defines. What do you have after the words of the constitution of a constitutional republic has been rendered meaningless?

[tahiti]

"A decade later, "Roe v. Wade" established as constitutional a "right to privacy" nowhere alluded to in the Constitution, but instead fabricated from thin air, as shamelessly explained by Justice Blackmun."

Once I read this sentence, I could not read the rest of the article.

This sentence is the reason I quit calling myself a conservative.

I thought conservatism was defined as conserving the principles and convenants of the U.S. Constitution.

The "right to privacy" emanates from the Ninth Amedment:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, SHALL NOT be construed to DENY OR DISPARAGE others (rights) retained by the people."

You have the right to be alone. You have a right to privacy.

The flaw in Justice Blackmun's Roe v Wade majority opinion is two fold:

--that the "right to privacy" emanates from the Fourteenth Amendment

--that an embryo is not a human being until it reaches "viability."

Both pronouncements by Justice Blackmun are unambigously and profoundly wrong.

And that is quite simply why Roe v Wade is a flawed decision and not that the "right to privacy" is not enumerated in the Constitution.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

We're 30 years into the leftist revolution. They took over without a shot fired.

[GrandEagle]

Excellent Article! I must point out though that the Democrats are not the only ones who view our Constitution as an obstacle to good government. I personally don't believe that we will recover from the last 10 years of extra constitutional behavior by our elected officials.

[StriperSniper]

Bump for later

[RaceBannon]

gotta read this

[Rockitz]

Ultimately, the flagrant abuses of power regularly perpetrated by the Clinton White House never resulted in the punitive responses that were warranted, primarily because his political opposition was so often stunned into relative silence by both the audacity of the deeds and the public indifference to them.

The repercussions of Filegate continue to emasculate the GOP leadership.

[hocndoc]

I read this over on the Washington Dispatch page
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_6450.shtml
and had to come over here to see whether anyone had posted it.
This man is saying what so many have said in the last few months, what some of us, my husband and I included, have been fearing.
I don't want to see the USofA balkanized by the "diversity" crowd or by revolution.

Is there a possibility of pruning the Government's powers?