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Politics : US CONSTITUTION - What It Actually Says
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From: redfish7/28/2005 12:42:30 PM
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The U.S. Constitution has morphed from an actual document that provides certain specific and limited rights to an extremely vague, nebulous concept that seems to serve the same purpose to a portion of our citizenry that the concept of God does to others.

Those who wish to continually expand the reach of the Constitution appear to view it as the source of all that is good in our society and the thing that protects us from what is bad ... rather than pray "the Lord is my shephard, I shall not want" they pray "the Constitution is my guardian, the legislators I need not fear."

The Constitution covers specific and limited issues and the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is so limited that getting a case heard by it is like passing a camel through the eye of a needle. As a general rule, legislative bodies are perfectly free to pass silly, misguided and pointless statutes to their hearts' content.

The harm in the continual expansion of alleged Constitutional "rights" is that certain issues are permanently removed from the playing field and the citizenry is denied the opportunity to participate in the resolution of these issues, allowing divisions among the populace to fester for decades without a satisfying resolution.

For example in the Griswold case Connecticut citizens were denied the right to determine among themselves the availability of contraceptives in their state ... as a matter of fact the statute involved was repealed by the state legislature but by that time the issue was moot as the USSC had taken the issue permanently out of play ... why not simply allow the citizens of Connecticut to resolve the matter?
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