NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
So you are stating that the COURTS may alter the Constitution? Really?LOL, you need to learn to use Google:
US Constitution, Article V: "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, also as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."
And seriously, when the Courts do it, that is "the people" changing it?
We have a representative government. Our representatives choose the judges.
In the sense that the Constitution is very general, and in the sense that each decided case, when it becomes case law, is specific, and adds another degree of specificity to the Constitution,
yes they can alter the Constitution.