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what would u change about it?

2006-10-22 17:37:26 · 6 answers · asked by Groovy 3 in Politics & Government Other - Politics & Government

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I'd change our ignorance toward other cultures

2006-10-22 17:45:16 · answer #1 · answered by nola_cajun 6 · 2 0

I'd repeal and replace the 14th Amendment. Section 1 of the 14th has three consecutive clauses that are vague and have been misused and abused by the Courts so much that it makes me want to stay away from the ballot box for the rest of my life.

Constitutional law ought to constitute a set of rules so that government (the level of government being commanded) can know what it can or cannot do. Constitutional law ought to "provide guidance and discipline for the legislature, which is entitled to know what kind of laws it may pass," and it ought to "mark the limit of [the Court's] authority." (From Romer v. Evans, 1996; morally correct rhetoric but completely hypocritical in reality.)

Declare that the 14th is repealed (we obviously don't need the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sections of it any more) and is replaced with more clearly stated rules for the states to obey.

In place of the Privileges and Immunities Clause, say that states must obey all provisions of the Bill of Rights except for the 2nd, 7th, and 9th amendments, and the Grand Jury Clause of the 5th.

Clarify that the Due Process Clause means exactly what it literally says and that, as Alexander Hamilton once said, it can never be applied to an act of the legislature (or voters). The Clause guarantees fair, standard PROCEDURES, not laws which judges deem acceptable.

Clarify that the Equal Protection Clause means only one thing: RACIAL equality. Not gender, not sexual orientation, not aliens, not equality for persons born out of wedlock, etc., etc.

The Supreme Court has been at its worst when: 1) it steals Presidential elections, 2) it enforces "unenumerated rights," and 3) picks out "minorities" other than racial minorites for "heightened protection."

"The current state of equal protection and fundamental rights is a travesty. The Court has drifted between different [clauses of the 14th] in deriving these rights as if they were so many coat hooks for the Court to use which-ever one is convenient. The various standards set out by the Court for deriving these rights are so vague as to be virtually useless. ... [T]he Fourteenth Amendment remains a hodgepodge of underdeveloped ideas." -- Evan Gerstmann, "Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution," (2003) Cambridge University Press, pp 209-210.

2006-10-23 00:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

probally the way of how most people think. "gays are messed up people"

in reality not really, many just think that because of "my religion said so" or they just are not used to the ordinary. Why do so many hate them, who cares if they want to have sex with other men, its the love part that i dont understand, why put so much hate in your heart to a couple who puts so much love and affection for another person of the same sex.

second, this whole circumcision thing, the primary reason at first was to stop kids from masturbating, well that didnt work, so why has it stayed? It doesnt say in the bible that you MUST circumsize a baby. Now it became so blown up where if a person has foreskin, he is seen as having extra skin, but really he is just more natural and not altered. I think the choice should e left to the newborn as he matures, then he can alter his ownself as he wishes.

2006-10-23 00:50:17 · answer #3 · answered by Al 3 · 2 0

Make the higher education free.

2006-10-23 00:53:55 · answer #4 · answered by Dr.O 5 · 3 0

I would do away with THIS secret and evil group that's been in control of everything for far too long!...
http://www.rense.com/general58/suspre.htm

2006-10-23 13:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Dispose of all weapons so no more stuff ups.

2006-10-23 01:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 2

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