Posted on 10/26/2006 4:05:18 AM PDT by excludethis
The greatest document in the history of civilization.
No one can have forgotten the bitterness of the struggle over the New Deal's attempt to pack the Supreme Court. . . . The Congress would not pass his court-packing law. . . . Nevertheless, it was possible two years later for . . . President to boast that he had won. Vacancies on the bench caused by death and retirement enabled him to fill it up with justices who were New-Deal minded. . . . [S]o at last he did capture the judicial power. . . [and achieved the] extreme and fantastic extensions of the interstate commerce clause.
The Constitution says that the Congress shall have the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." . . . .
Commerce among the several states is of course interstate commerce. . . .
And then the New Deal courts stretched the definition of interstate commerce to the extreme of saying that the Federal government may regulate a wheat farmer who feeds his own wheat to his own chickens, on the ground that if he had not raised his own wheat he would have had to buy wheat for his chickens and buying it would be in the way of interstate commerce; or, that the Federal government may regulate the hours and wages of elevator operators, janitors, and char-women in a Philadelphia office building because some of the building's tenants are engaged in interstate commerce. See: http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/docs/The_Revolution_Was.html
Interesting opinions today.
As are millions my friend. If needed WE will save America!
LLS
Fight the power, eh? You'll find yourself in some secret cell somewhere, strapped to a waterboard, with no represenation and no charges filed.
I care about the Second but I also care about the 14th. It should be repealed, even if a Constitutional Convention is needed to do it. It has been the source of much pernicious law and the vague language and "rights" it confers--we would be much better without. Specifically, the language that makes any brat dumped on this side of the border by an illegal alien mother a citizen...
--Boris
Can you read? IF THE left EVER FOMENTED INSURRECTION...
LLS
Nope... I am not nor will I ever be a foreign fighter, illegal enemy combatant, or subject to Military Justice as a citizen. I would more than likely be in Uniform, because if insurrection ever happens, they surely will call up those who have served.
LLS
7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner, a Reagan appointee.... Maybe it's Judge Posner's bitter reaction to what he perceives as judicial overreaching in constitutional decisions.
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Judge Posner is ready to make malleable the protections contained in the Constitution; he's ready to have bedrock individual rights and protections ebb and flow along a sliding scale depending upon the scope of the crisis.
So because he doesn't like activist judges who substitute their own feelings for the letter of the Constitution, he's willing to subtitute his own feelings for the letter of the Constitution?
Nice logic there, your Honor.
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