[rlmorel]

Heya CIC, haven’t crossed paths with you for a while, good to hear from you and hope all is well!

Good post-in summary (if I understand correctly) the Sullivan ruling gave the media protection it not only did not deserve, but exploited to end up where they are now?

If that summary is correct, I would be all for overturning Sullivan.

In my opinion, one of the most amazing things about the US Constitution is...its brevity. The other is the focus not on what you CAN as an individual do, but what the government CANNOT do to you as a citizen.

The effort to positively enumerate everything is, exactly as you say, a fool’s errand. It could never be kept up to date, it would always be in the process of being changed this way and that way (to suit whoever has their hands on the levers of power) and it would become so unwieldy as to be useless.

When the EU Constitution was made available online, I downloaded it and was horrified-it was the stupidest, most bloated, woke governing document I had ever seen, at nearly 60,000 words versus 4,600 for the US Constitution. The difference was staggering.

Of course, it all boils down to whether you are someone who believes that your rights are given to you by a governing body of humans such as the EU or whether you believe your rights come from God.

It makes a big difference in how you explain those rights on paper!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

When the EU Constitution was made available online, I downloaded it and was horrified-it was the stupidest, most bloated, woke governing document I had ever seen, at nearly 60,000 words versus 4,600 for the US Constitution. The difference was staggering.

When I was listening to a Dennis Prager “Fireside Chat,” he answered a question from a foreigner about some facet of American political practice. And he said that his questioner should read the US Constitution to understand it. And I was yelling at my computer screen that the foreigner needed to know that the unamended Constitution is on a few pages long.

Of course, it all boils down to whether you are someone who believes that your rights are given to you by a governing body of humans such as the EU or whether you believe your rights come from God.

It makes a big difference in how you explain those rights on paper!

Hear, hear! Exactly right. The members of the EU had a tremendous history of enmity, and they were trying to create trust among themselves via, basically, a prenup agreement.

IMHO it would probably have been better to create a more compact constitution and append their “prenup” stipulations to it in the form of bylaws.