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[From Atl.General]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:14:12 GMT, Dave Simpson <nospam@newsranger.com>
wrote:

>
>Lurker Below wrote:
>
>>>>> Fortunately most of us aren't so stupid as to have
>>>>> belief in the infallibility of the Ruling of the Hour.
>
>>>>Such as Plessy, perhaps?
>>
>>>Or Dred Scott, if you really like game-playing...
>
>>Scott was rendered moot by an Amendment to the Constitution, Plessy
>>was, in effect, overturned. Two very different things.
>
>I know that.  The two are similar because of race, and I apologize, as
>I was interpreting your question as being a smart-ass attempt at insulting
>me by using the outdated white-Southerner stereotype.  There's been
>too much of that rude foolishness lately and I had interpreted your
>question as more of the same.
>
>Now if only the judicial activism fool-and-troublemaker fans would be
>ethical enough to insist on amendments in other cases where they did
>not like the way the Constitution currently is written...
>
>
>Dave Simpson
>
The modern liberals are very unlikely to go for an amendment since
that process comes under Article V of the Constitution and they know
that their feel-good legislation is very unlikely to withstand such
scrutiny and a 2/3 to start and then a 3/4 to ratify majority.

One of the more important blocks in their way is "...and that no
State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in
the Senate. " Which means that they can't rely on the 'popular' vote
which is dependent on the generally liberal public-tit-hangers in the
big cities.

When it comes to amendment ratification, then Montana becomes just as
important as California. (Which is not the case in legislative
representation within the Federal house of representatives.) Even if
it is sent to popular referenda within the states (an option) it
remains state-oriented.

Hence, they become judicial activists claiming that if the courts
declare 2+2=5, then that is the oh--fishul sum.

[ I do not believe that  Article V has been affected by any amendment]

jim