Constitutional Amendments

Saturday, July 02, 2005

Constitutional Amendments

By Rob on July 2, 2005 at 11:07 am

Brian Watkins over at Red State has some great law he's like to see amended into the US Constitution to reverse a string of bad decisions that have been handed down in the last several years...

Here's a taste:

The United States Supreme Court ruled this spring in Kelo v. New London (04-108, 2005) that states may take private property not only for use by the public (for ports or roads) but also to give the property to private corporations the state prefers over current owners. In this case the preferred owner was Pfizer but Wal-Mart and other giant retailers are common recipients also.

We should reverse the opinion of the court with a constitutional amendment like this,

No person shall be deprived of property without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

There's more. Go, read them all and then tell me we don't have a problem at SCOTUS...

Comments

Rob
19961 comments
Send a private message

For some reason I’ve seen resistance to amending the constitution from some on the right. Something along the lines of “we shouldn’t have to re-write a masterpiece because stupid people can’t read it.”

I think that’s a silly reason not to make the needed changes. The framers left the Constitution open for changes for a reason. Bad supreme court decisions was surely one of them.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Rob on July 2, 2005 at 08:07 pm

Rob
19961 comments
Send a private message

Well...right. The problem is that the Supreme Court has chosen to interpret those real amendments in an unfathomable way. So why not amend the Constitution to make the intent even more clear and override the rather ludicrous SC rulings?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Rob on July 2, 2005 at 08:07 pm