Posted on 07/16/2018 2:54:04 AM PDT by Jacquerie
The first distinction between Progressives and Constitutional Originalists is their polar opposite emphasis on process. Progressive couldn’t care less for constitutional process. Oh, they’ll utilize constitutional processes if they can arrive at the desired progressive conclusion, but it ultimately doesn’t matter whether they arrive at social justice via popular referendum, statute, administrative regulation, or judicial decisions.
Constitutional Originalists cherish proper processes, and the most important process in the American republic is lawmaking, and limited lawmaking, by Congress. To paraphrase Edmund Burke, Originalists sniff out tyranny with every regulation or court decision, regardless of its perceived social justice benefit, which has the effect of establishing enforceable law.
Social justice is ill-defined and therefore impossible to achieve. Yet, it is for what Progressives continuously strive. The history of so-called “voting rights” is but one train of progressive abuses of the 14th Amendment that have horribly damaged the American republic.
In recent decades, Progressive so corrupted the 14th Amendment that little cannot be justified under its privileges or immunities, due process, or equal protection clauses. Under the guise of equal protection, scotus waded into, and overturned decisions going back to Luther v. Borden (1849) that left the matter of congressional districts and their populations where they belong, with the states. Simply put, malapportionment of legislative districts is not justiciable.
Nothing in our history from colonial times to the mid-1860s Constitutionally justified One Man One Vote in the early 1960s court decisions. One Man One Vote is an illegitimate and destructive scotus-created right that pulled the matter of state and congressional legislative districts from the political and self-governing responsibility of republican states in Article I § 4, Article IV § 4, and lodged it in unrepublican Article III.
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I have never been a fan of One Man One Vote. I am more a Terran Federation kind of guy. After completing a term of Federal Service “Civilians” become “Citizens” and gain the right to vote.
I don't believe that you should only be a white male to vote. However, I DO believe that being the Property Owner requirement should still be in there. That way, the voter has skin in the game.
So Heinlein wrote the constitution?
Reminds me of what 3 time fighter ace, General Robin Olds said to LBJ when the president asked him how he thought of how the war was going.
Olds’words were few, “Get us out of this GD war!”
When LBJ asked how, Olds replied, “It’s simple, sir - win it!”
Thinking people at that time could see that the was the war was being horribly mismanaged. Those people avoided that debacle. So they shouldn’t be allowed to vote?
The book didn’t just talk about the war for the vote, but other service also. Heinlein left a path for conscientious objectors.
And no, Heinlein did not write the constitution. However, please show me in the constitution where it says everyone born in the USA is automatically a citizen? Especially since the 14th Amendment was not then active.
Except for democratics. Then its 2, 3, 4, maybe 5 votes per person.
“Social justice” may or may not exist, but the way they use it is better described as “social engineering” by those who do not know either engineering, society, or common sense.
Never said it did. I think having a stake in the nation either via property (not necessarily real property) OR some sort of service is the answer.
Question? Does the term conscientious objector refer to just those who don’t believe in war? Or perhaps those who believe the prosecution of a war is stupid and useless?
My dad fought, as a marine, in the island hopping campaign of admiral Nimitz. They fought and many died and at the end WE WON!
We haven’t WON a war since. We neither win nor lose. We just fight.
Until this government fights to the finish again, I would not recommend any of my boys join any branch of the service.
The COs still had to put their lives at risk.
Half the population is living in the nine largest states, right now, and those nine have over half the votes in the House of Representatives (California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina).
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