It seems there is an interesting trend with the poll. All liberal voters have said we have not strayed from the Constitution, yet all others (independents/conservatives/other) have said that we have strayed from the Constitution.
It seems there is an interesting trend with the poll. All liberal voters have said we have not strayed from the Constitution, yet all others (independents/conservatives/other) have said that we have strayed from the Constitution.
I don't think that's really surprising. Most conservatives tend to believe the constitution is carved in stone and there's only one correct interpretation. Most liberals tend to believe that it's more open to interpretation.
Most conservatives have been taught to be some flavor of originalist, although many of them couldn't tell you what that means or what method is used for any of the originalist interpretations if their lives depended on it.
For liberals, add "non-" in front of "originalist" and copy and paste the rest.
Then you have your pragmatist folks in the middle, technically non-originalist but not what most would consider "liberal".
All of these camps and many subcategories are considered legitimate, accepted methods of constitutional interpretation.
Whose vision of the constitution and its principles are we supposed to have strayed from, when, and how?
I think the Constitution was put into place to establish equality under the law. And I do think think the intentions of the originators wanted was not to stop at that document. I do think State Constitutional amendments barring state recognition of gay marriage are antithetical / unConstitutional towards equal representation under the law.
Well, no where in Article 1, Section 8 is authority granted to Congress to dictate seat-belt policy to the states
to run a national retirement plan (Social Security)
to nationalize the nation's health care industry
to create the Federal Reserve
to regulate rape
or gun ownership under the Interstate Commerce Clause
to transfer money from working people to people who don't work (welfare/unemployment "insurance", ag subsidies, etc.)
Even the foolish people on the Left think there's something wrong with the PATRIOT Act, though most of them wouldn't be able to tell what.
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