How the Supreme Court Abolished Article V of the Constitution

The American Spectator ^ | 8.14.15 | Robert A. J. Gagnon

[daniel1212]

On July 31 at the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award Luncheon, former Justice John Paul Stevens declared that, while the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment establishes a right to “gay marriage,” it does not protect an individual’s right to keep and bear arms....

I marvel at Stevens’ ability to reject an application of the Fourteenth Amendment to a right clearly enumerated elsewhere in the Constitution (viz., “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” in the Second Amendment) while affirming its application to a supposed right not elsewhere even remotely alluded to in the Constitution (viz., the right of a person to marry a person of the same sex).

As Harvard-trained lawyer Brian Troyer commented, “You need look no farther to see that liberal jurisprudence has nothing to do with law or the Constitution except in the instrumental sense that when liberal judges pronounce their judgments on these issues they invoke the document as their excuse for imposing their personal policy preferences.”

In Obergefell v. Hodges Justice Kennedy, writing for the bare majority (Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan), based the case for the oxymoron that is “gay marriage” on the “due process” and “equal protection” clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. So far-fetched was the connection that its effect was to dumb down intelligible words that have an historical context to the subjectivity of a Rorschach inkblot test or a reading of tea leaves.

[wita]

So at this stage wouldn’t it be proper to consider sedition and treason to be patriotic acts?

I would say never to the premise. This is one of those “depends on the meaning of is”, statements. We know the left will never give up using the correct definition to bash patriotic conservatives for something leftists should actually be charged with.

Making the charge stick, and hanging the blastards is the tough part.

[Elsie]

Also see HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE (extensive examination and refutation of prohomosex polemics, by God's grace.)

 

Genesis 13:13

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

Psalms 12:8 The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.

2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

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2 Peter 2

1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.

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But there IS hope!!!

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Health Risks of gay sex.

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[Elsie]

The power in the United States of America, by virtue of the constitution, lies in the people through the house of Representatives. Which has the power to remove justices from the USC.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[Elsie]

That is really up to the people via whom they elect.

[Elsie]

The first part may be hard, but the second should be easy.

[1_Of_We]

What election? We put our ballots into a Black Box that counts them any way it likes!

[BuckeyeTexan]

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[originalbuckeye]

In Obamaland, Leftists can say anything and it is automatically declared TRUTH. In Obamaland, Leftists can do ANYTHING without fear of consequences, as the bulk of ‘judges’ are now on their side. How many judges were approved after Reid triggered the ‘nuclear option’, without so much as a whimper from Big Media?

[Sirius Lee]

Anarchy exists when laws are no longer enforced evenly, or are simply ignored.

When the same conditions as above exist, yet the government retains the ability to apply force and violence at whim it's called a Dictatorship.

[Diamond]

Thank you for posting the article.

The article is very well written and has some very good insights into the Supreme Soviet's recent Alice in Wonderland Oberkfell decision and it's insane, twisted, perverted logic.

I disagree however, that the Extremes abolished Article V of the Constitution. They certainly ignored it but it is still there, available to be EXERCISED.

And I don't mean by the first method, but by the second. (Waiting for and putting our hopes in US Congress critters feathering their own nest and exempting themselves from the laws to which they subjugate us is like waiting for Hell to freeze over. They are part of the cancerous tumor eating away the life of this Nation. They are not going to upset their own nest.)

The solution is right there already, embedded in the Constitution:

Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Article V of the United States Constitution allows us to call a Convention of States to restrict the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, effectively returning the citizen's rightful power over the ruling elite.

The Founders understood the jealousy and ambitions of power. That's why they wrote the Constitution the way they did and why they put that Article V CONTITUTIONAL CHECK on Federal power into the Constitution. It is a CONSTITUTIONAL SOLUTION that, as Mark Levin says, is a big as the problem.

So let's let the States be jealous of their own powers and put these Federal tyrants back in their rightful place.

Cordially,

[upcountryhorseman]

Didn’t The Supreme Court make a finding completely opposite
to The First Amendment?

[daniel1212]

Thanks for the input.

[daniel1212]

Didn’t The Supreme Court make a finding completely opposite to The First Amendment?

Its all in how one interprets it, which is by those appointed by those who are elected by the electorate. Gov. by the people. Too much post-Christian in this case.

[Art in Idaho]

Well said:

"I disagree however, that the Extremes abolished Article V of the Constitution. They certainly ignored it but it is still there, available to be EXERCISED."

"The Founders understood the jealousy and ambitions of power. That's why they wrote the Constitution the way they did and why they put that Article V CONTITUTIONAL CHECK on Federal power into the Constitution. It is a CONSTITUTIONAL SOLUTION that, as Mark Levin says, is as big as the problem."

[redleghunter]

They actually have no real power because they rely on the other two branches to fall in line. So we could just start laughing at them. Once that starts then getting a new law passed clarifying the courts power can be made easy.

As some suggested President Andrew Jackson alluded to in Worcester v. Georgia:

In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" This derives from Jackson's comments on the case in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," (that is, the Court's opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).[1]

But of course Georgia complied without the need for federal executive enforcement.

[redleghunter]

I gather daniel1212 has the Bible verses you posted but not that hideous pic:)

[LongWayHome]

The Anti-Federalist papers were right. The corruption of the constitution was foreseen.

[Elsie]

Hideous?

They b FABULOUS; dear!

[daniel1212]

The power in the United States of America, by virtue of the constitution, lies in the people through the house of Representatives. Which has the power to remove justices from the USC.

The people also elect those who appoint the interpreters. But with a man as Cruz only in the single digits, we can see what blindness is in America.