For Progressives, there are no guiding principles, only what they say is true at the moment.
Conservatives, i.e., the Founders, believed that there are moral truths, right and wrong, and that these truths are permanent....and enshrined in the Constitution.
The result of infracting these truths will be atrocities and social disaster.
Progressives believe in a privatization of morality so complete that no code of conduct is generally accepted, to the point of ‘do what you can get away with’. These beliefs are aimed at the gratification of appetites and exhibit anarchistic impulses.
And, therefore, the Constitution must be eradicated.
" Justly revered as our great Constitution is, it could be stripped off and thrown aside like a garment, and the nation would still stand forth in the living vestment of flesh and sinew, warm with the heart-blood of one people, ready to recreate constitutions and laws. …"
Woodrow Wilson
1. As far as Progressives are concerned, they are so very much smarter than the Founders, and, therefore, their understanding of the needs of society, summarized as 'social justice,' must not be denied!
Of course it is fairly simple to prove that the Founders were wiser, and, in fact, that the Progressives were corrupt and unethical: the Founders provided a mechanism to change the Constitution if necessary....Article five, the amendment process.
But for Progressives, substituting their caprice, known as 'case law,' if a far more streamlined process. Efficacy over ethics.
Neither the Constitution nor the will of the people should stand in their way!
2. The 'Progressive Era' began prior to Saturday, March 4, 1933, the date of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration....but make no mistake: this friend of Joseph Stalin was central to the destruction of the Constitution.
Other players included three Progressives already on the Court: Louis Brandeis, who provided the mechanism for Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912, and Harlan Stone, and Benjamin Cardozo.
The fading hopes for America rested on the shoulders of four Madisonian justices: Pierce Butler,James McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter.
In the middle, Owen Roberts and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
3. Two cases began the evisceration: in Article 1, section 10, which stated that no state may pass any " Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts,..."
a. In the 1934 U.S. Supreme Court case Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, the “Four Horsemen” — the Madisonians — banded together in an unsuccessful attempt to hold back the forces of statism and collectivism, the Progressives.
b. The Blaisdells, like so many other Americans in the early 1930s, lacked the money to make their mortgage payments. They defaulted and the bank foreclosed, selling the home at the foreclosure sale. The Minnesota legislature had enacted a law that provided that a debtor could go to court and seek a further extension of time in which to redeem the property.
c. Did the Minnesota redemption law impair the loan contract between the building and loan association and the Blaisdells? It would seem rather obvious that it did. But in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held otherwise:it ruled in express contravention of the constitutional prohibition. And their leader, Franklin Roosevelt, was leading their charge on a national level.
Did I mention that Progressives on the courts feel no responsibility to obey the 'law of the land, the United States Constitution?
Conservatives, i.e., the Founders, believed that there are moral truths, right and wrong, and that these truths are permanent....and enshrined in the Constitution.
The result of infracting these truths will be atrocities and social disaster.
Progressives believe in a privatization of morality so complete that no code of conduct is generally accepted, to the point of ‘do what you can get away with’. These beliefs are aimed at the gratification of appetites and exhibit anarchistic impulses.
And, therefore, the Constitution must be eradicated.
" Justly revered as our great Constitution is, it could be stripped off and thrown aside like a garment, and the nation would still stand forth in the living vestment of flesh and sinew, warm with the heart-blood of one people, ready to recreate constitutions and laws. …"
Woodrow Wilson
1. As far as Progressives are concerned, they are so very much smarter than the Founders, and, therefore, their understanding of the needs of society, summarized as 'social justice,' must not be denied!
Of course it is fairly simple to prove that the Founders were wiser, and, in fact, that the Progressives were corrupt and unethical: the Founders provided a mechanism to change the Constitution if necessary....Article five, the amendment process.
But for Progressives, substituting their caprice, known as 'case law,' if a far more streamlined process. Efficacy over ethics.
Neither the Constitution nor the will of the people should stand in their way!
2. The 'Progressive Era' began prior to Saturday, March 4, 1933, the date of Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration....but make no mistake: this friend of Joseph Stalin was central to the destruction of the Constitution.
Other players included three Progressives already on the Court: Louis Brandeis, who provided the mechanism for Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912, and Harlan Stone, and Benjamin Cardozo.
The fading hopes for America rested on the shoulders of four Madisonian justices: Pierce Butler,James McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter.
In the middle, Owen Roberts and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
3. Two cases began the evisceration: in Article 1, section 10, which stated that no state may pass any " Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts,..."
a. In the 1934 U.S. Supreme Court case Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell, the “Four Horsemen” — the Madisonians — banded together in an unsuccessful attempt to hold back the forces of statism and collectivism, the Progressives.
b. The Blaisdells, like so many other Americans in the early 1930s, lacked the money to make their mortgage payments. They defaulted and the bank foreclosed, selling the home at the foreclosure sale. The Minnesota legislature had enacted a law that provided that a debtor could go to court and seek a further extension of time in which to redeem the property.
c. Did the Minnesota redemption law impair the loan contract between the building and loan association and the Blaisdells? It would seem rather obvious that it did. But in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held otherwise:it ruled in express contravention of the constitutional prohibition. And their leader, Franklin Roosevelt, was leading their charge on a national level.
Did I mention that Progressives on the courts feel no responsibility to obey the 'law of the land, the United States Constitution?
