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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (129150)11/28/2000 2:12:28 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 1583693
 
That depends very much on how you look at it. I would argue that the Supreme Court only started taking many constitutional rights seriously in about the middle of the 20th century, like the unreasonable search and seizure provisions, the right to avoid self-incrimination, and the post civil war amendments. With all the retro "strict constructionist" interpretation these days, the "reasonable" reach of seizure is getting pretty broad, at least in the war on (some) drugs, and Clarence Thomas at least doesn't much hold with Miranda.

And from what I read among the righteous right, the post civil war amendments wouldn't be too safe in an ideal world, either. All those people stupid enough to not vote Republican are too stupid to be allowed to vote, I hear. There must be some kind of literacy test that could be set up to take care of that pesky matter.
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