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January 10, 2011
Liberalism's Problem With the Constitution
Topics: Political News and commentariesW. James Antle, III on the liberal reaction (for example) to the new GOP-controlled House kicking off the legislative session by reading the Constitution (emphasis mine):
[...] Nearly all this commentary misses the point. The argument isn't that the Constitution is perfect or the equivalent of Scripture. It was, as liberals are fond of pointing out, a document written and ratified through a political process, the product of compromises between Framers with different opinions on some important questions, much like any other document that could be devised through such a process.Read it all ...The argument is that the Constitution is the law. The federal government must obey the Constitution because constitutional government is, in the American Republic, the only form of lawful government. Which brings up the next point: the Constitution may not be an exhaustive list of policy prescriptions that the Framers would have viewed as correct, but it is an exhaustive list of the powers of the federal government.
Put a bit more simply so even the liberals can understand it, the Constitution, as written, is the law of the land, unless legislatively changed by amendment. What's so hard to understand?
What's easy to understand is that liberals have a problem with having their agenda of ever-expanding government and it's ever-increasing control over our lives, constrained ... and detest being reminded that the only form of lawful government in our Republic is that which operates under the Constitution.
Posted by Richard at January 10, 2011 6:54 AM
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