JWBooth
Diamond Member
If a Constitutional Ammendment were proposed that eliminated voting and installed the President for Life, would opposing that make you somehow "Anti-Constitution?"
Should it pass, heaven forbid, it would be anti-liberty, anti-freedom, but opposing it would not be anti-constitutional. Such an absurd "what if".
So, the opposition is principled because it opposes bringing back some balance between the states and the national government?A great deal of the people arguing against this idea are arguing against it because it fundamentally changes how the balance of power between the States and the Feds currently works. It would make it even harder for the Feds to take an unpopular but necessary stance, and start to dismantle the centralized government we currently have.
I believe the key to the opposition is not creating, or renewing this check but in the second sentence where a start is given to some dismantling of the centralised government, however small a chink in the armor this would be.
Something accurately stated, yet misapplied in this instance.An Ammendment can most certainly be against the Spirit of the Constitution, while still being a part of it.