Monday, September 11, 2006

Does Congress Own You?

Professor Rozeff reports:
The U.S. Constitution is far more of a carte blanche than libertarians who want to "go back to the Constitution" may realize. The American majority approves a law, the majority being an ever-changing subset of voters and elected and appointed officials. It grants to itself an almost unlimited scope of imposing its illegitimate and unlawful will upon the minority of those other Americans obliged to submit. By what means? By using the open-ended language of the Constitution and the open-ended interpretations thereof to tyrannize an ever-changing minority. The result is before us: a pastiche of illegitimate and unlawful laws, passed and executed under an abstraction that we are supposed to bow down to called the rule of law.
Not one act of Congress was declared unconstitutional from 1937 to 1995.So much for "checks" on government.