A photo of the professor ... The pic screams athiest and lesbian in the same sentence.
Posted on 11/17/2013 4:48:06 AM PST by Kaslin
Sorry, Mike, it's you who show your ignorance here of the Constitution and its history.
No attempt was made to apply the Bill of Rights to the states till the passage of the 14th Amendment, possibly accidentally, required it.
There is a loonngg history of state and local interferance with "constitutional rights" prior to the Civil War, including the 1st, 2nd and others. In some southern states, not only was abolitionist literature prohibited, in obvious direct violation of the 1st, its distribution was a capitol crime. Many laws that we would today consider "gun control" were passed and enforced in the period before the War. A great many states even had "knife control" laws.
The main reason for this disconnect between "constitutional rights" and state action is that the Founders were NOT in favor of "limited government," they were in favor of "limited federal government." A very different concept indeed.
Maybe we should just get rid of the 4th Amendment as well.
I think a full property search and anal exam would suit her just fine.
Lib/Prog logic:
ObamaCare = It’s the Law = Can’t be repealed.
2nd Amendment = It’s the Constitution = Must be repealed!
This is really embarrassing. I cannot believe TAMU has gotten so liberal. Really, really embarrassing.
She may indeed feel this way, but calling for repeal of the 2nd does not show it.
Indeed, I have respect for anyone who proposes changing the Constitution by amending it. As that process is itself impeccably constitutional.
Doesn't mean I will agree with the proposed amendment, but at least their method for change is constititutional.
95% of our problems arise from "interpreting" or ignoring the Constitution, not amending it.
Perhaps we could include an amendment which did not end up in the final draft of the Constitution:
NO LAWYERS could serve in Congress.
I hope that you're right, but the last two Supreme Court decisions concerning the 2nd Admendment were decided 5-4. One more choice for this president and that flips. That seems to me to be a long way from 'absolutely no chance'.
And, how oh how do we account for Kirstin Powers?
;^)
You can breathe more easily. TAMU Law School isn’t really TAMU. TAMU recently bought Texas Wesleyan Law School in Fort Worth (a third- or fourth-tier law school) so it would have a law school.
A photo of the professor ... The pic screams athiest and lesbian in the same sentence.
***This is really embarrassing. I cannot believe TAMU has gotten so liberal. Really, really embarrassing.***
See yesterday’s thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3092102/posts
The Founders did, in fact, favorv limited government, especially on the federal level. Many also favored limited government on a state level, but they recognized that in a republic those states retained rights and powers unique to themselves, and that to restrict states’ rights would negate their idea of a republic. So, it was a matter of them saying “We may like limited government, but we can’t presume to dictate to our brother states what they may believe is in their own respective best interests.”
A repeal of the 2nd Amendment would bring about a revolution...of the violent kind.
Good observation!
bttt
Well there goes the thread. Thanks a lot. Why don’t you just post a picture of Helen Thomas while you’re at it?
She also looks like an obnoxious jerk.
Wouldn’t be a lawyer, by any chance, would she?
Liberty is a positive idea. I would like to see variety rather than enforced uniformity. Apparently you have no faith in the founding idea.
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