05-30-2022, 09:21 PM
(05-27-2022, 08:43 PM)Johnny Cupcakes Wrote: The “constitutional right” argument is the cheapest one there is. We’re taking a document that was written just after electricity was discovered and black people were still being bought and sold into slavery and looking at it as if it’s infallible. The constitution needs to be treated as a living document much more than it is…things that made sense then, just don’t make sense anymore.
It’s actually the only argument. Ok it was written over two hundred years ago. Do you say the same thing about your right to an attorney or your right against unlawful search and seizure? The Supreme Court ruled on this ten or fifteen years ago. Living and breathing. How do we decide which rights don’t really count? You either pass an amendment or rewrite the constitution.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall
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