{"id":46919,"date":"2022-08-23T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46919"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:46:02","slug":"is-the-u-s-constitution-actually-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=46919","title":{"rendered":"Is The U. S. Constitution Actually A Good Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about a New York Times opinion piece posted on Friday. I am not linking to The New York Times piece because it is behind the paywall.<\/p>\n

Breitbart reports:<\/p>\n

The \u201cbroken\u201d and \u201cfamously undemocratic\u201d U.S. Constitution \u201cstands in the way\u201d of \u201creal\u201d freedom and democracy, according to a New York Times<\/i> op-ed by two Ivy League law professors.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pair issued a call to \u201cradically alter the basic rules of the game\u201d by no longer requiring us to \u201cjustify our politics by the Constitution.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Friday New York Times<\/i> essay<\/a>, titled \u201cThe Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,\u201d and penned by law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale, claims when liberals \u201close in the Supreme Court\u201d they often blame justices for misreading the Constitution, yet in reality, \u201cstruggling over the Constitution has proved a dead end.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe real need is not to reclaim the Constitution, as many would have it, but instead to reclaim America from constitutionalism,\u201d the authors assert, as they attack the \u201csome centuries-old text.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article shares the solution proposed by the professors:<\/p>\n

Accusing \u201cconstitutionalism\u201d of \u201cleaving democracy hostage to constraints that are harder to change than the rest of the legal order,\u201d the essay argues the way to seek \u201creal freedom\u201d will be a \u201cnew way of fighting within American democracy\u201d with a \u201cmore open politics of altering our fundamental law,\u201d suggesting that the Constitution be made \u201cmore amendable\u201d than it currently is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOne way to get to this more democratic world is to pack the Union with new states,\u201d the authors write. \u201cDoing so would allow Americans to then use the formal amendment process to alter the basic rules of [politics] and break the false deadlock that the Constitution imposes through the Electoral College and Senate on the country, in which substantial majorities are foiled on issue after issue.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the authors state, Congress could \u201copenly defy\u201d the Constitution to \u201cget to a more democratic order,\u201d with the basic structure of government being \u201cdecided by the present electorate, as opposed to one from some foggy past.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA politics of the American future like this would make clear our ability to engage in the constant reinvention of our society under our own power, without the illusion that the past stands in the way,\u201d they conclude.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The piece comes as many on the left continue to attack the epic founding governmental document.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just for the record, we are not a democracy, we are a representative republic.<\/p>\n

Why don’t we just put all of the people who want to get rid of the Constitution on a fairly large island and let them govern it using their ideas? We could take bets on how long it would take to reenact Lord of the Flies<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday Breitbart posted an article about a New York Times opinion piece posted on Friday. I am not linking to The New York Times piece because it is behind the paywall. Breitbart reports: The \u201cbroken\u201d and \u201cfamously undemocratic\u201d U.S. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15667,10348,8558,4771],"class_list":["post-46919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-democracy","tag-breitbart","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46925,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46919\/revisions\/46925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}