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Georgetown Law professor: Scrap ‘archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil’ Constitution
Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Caroline May
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/1/2013 12:20:49 AM
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| With hours to go before nation heads off the fiscal cliff, Georgetown Law professor Louis Michael Seidman writes that the time has come to scrap the Constitution. In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation’s foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America’s troubles. “As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” Seidman wrote. “But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TexasRed, 1/1/2013 12:25:32 AM (No. 9092543)
Deport that mindless turncoat idiot.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 1/1/2013 12:37:06 AM (No. 9092547)
It´s not the constitution that got us in this mess,it´s the Marxist president and his bunch trying to implement their ideals.Unlike Cuba this guy can leave this country any time he wishes to.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 1/1/2013 12:42:15 AM (No. 9092548)
This Georgetown Law Professor is downright evil. If he doesn´t like it here, let him move to Syria.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 1/1/2013 12:42:58 AM (No. 9092549)
When will your new constitutional convention begin? It should be interesting to see today´s ´intellectuals´ try to top the beautifully written document on which our country is founded. The founders even provided for their possible errors with a method for correction called the amendment process and another called the Supreme Court, though they did use the antiquated proposition of religious belief, the antiquated words of some of the world´s greatest thinkers and that flimsy addition of the Bill of Rights to bulk up the rules; how retrograde.
The problem comes from the lawless nature of humanity who will always wish to bend the law, no matter how broadly we would write the ´next constitution´. Could we also say that the bending of the law requires lots of lawyers to circumvent them. Is it possible to write Shakespeare´s advice into the next perfected constitution?
Oy, God save us!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 1/1/2013 12:51:47 AM (No. 9092560)
We have had conversations with a number of black Americans. They hate the Constitution.
Liberals not only hate our founding document, they hate the country.
God save us.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
god of irony, 1/1/2013 12:56:00 AM (No. 9092563)
And this is one the top law schools in America?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/1/2013 1:01:41 AM (No. 9092566)
I wonder how large a grant was bestowed upon this prof. to write this garbage? Looks like 2013 will bring the MSM support of Obama violating the constitution over & over.... or shall I say, his continued violations.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 1/1/2013 1:04:59 AM (No. 9092569)
Know this Proff...
If I could reach you I would smack you down........HARD!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
billa, 1/1/2013 1:27:59 AM (No. 9092578)
As a former law student, AmJure´d Con Law, an attorney and taught Con Law to law students, I am stunned by this person´s opinion to scrap the study of our fundamental document comprising of our system of government.
Can you imagine in your second year of law school taking Con Law from this teacher, a requirement and also tested on all State bars being advised that the document is not worth studying, which comprises an entire year of study and one of the most difficult courses to learn and teach? And in all places, a university "adjacent" to the US Capitol.
And the US wonders why high school and college grads cannot identify presidents, states, countries, political parties, major historical events, or speak correct English.
What would he prefer to teach? Perhaps, Sharia? Or Communism?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 1/1/2013 1:41:27 AM (No. 9092584)
What is it about American universities that breeds such contempt for the nation that made it possible for these pointy-heads to parasitize them? They learn contempt for the people who protect them, who make products for them, who work to send their children to be taught — read indoctrinated — by them. They, too, will be disintermediated by the Internet. The sooner, the better.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
KTWO, 1/1/2013 1:48:48 AM (No. 9092587)
He is right. The present system isn´t working well for the nation. It is leading to disaster.
But it is working just dandy for those in government. Their interests differ from the interests of those they rule.
And yet Seidman concludes we should give more powers and privileges to those who already have the most and misuse them.
I fail to see how that will improve matters for me or the people of the nation.
We have divided powers and the Executive can´t act unilaterally in every situation. So the Executive is not absolute.
Obama has made a lot of progress toward gaining absolute power and may well succeed in grasping it.
If Seidman wants an Emperor and absolute state he should just say so.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 1/1/2013 2:05:55 AM (No. 9092597)
This jerk went to school at the University of Chicago and cowrote a book with Cass Sunstein. Enough said. If you love this country he is your enemy.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/1/2013 4:13:07 AM (No. 9092637)
Georgetown...hmmm, isn´t that where Sandra the Flake goes to college?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/1/2013 4:50:37 AM (No. 9092653)
There will be many, many more "progressives" coming out of the anti-constitution closet in the wake of this admission.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/1/2013 5:27:33 AM (No. 9092663)
Abandoning the Constiturion is what got us in this mess. There´s nothing in it about the depts.of education,energyor HHS to name a few.The federal gov´t now tramples onstate´srights,routinely.
This joker has the same line of thinking of people saying the debt ceiling should be infinity.
You cannot get a leftist off the idea that money solves problems,despite reams of proof it doesn´t.Obama´s already spent billions on Obamacare without one new person getting insured.How did the federal government get to be in charge of health insurance premiums?
How can you write a law that says everyone must purchase health insurance and in the next breath,say except for this or that group of people? The left interprets "promote the general welfare as promoting welfare like they´re doing in Mexico to lure more voters here.
Obama has abdicated the fed gov´t duty to protect the border which should be grounds for impeachment among many other things he´s done.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/1/2013 5:32:16 AM (No. 9092664)
Any blacks that hate the Constitution don´t really know the Constitution. They´ve been brainwashed by leftists to believe it´s something that it isn´t. And most have been taught false revisionist history. This "professor" is EVIL (w/ a capital E). That´s the problem with what is happening today...too many people have been falsely misled, propagandized, indoctrinated and just plain lied to when it comes to history and our founding documents. A lot of history has been rewritten to persuade people that this country is bad. It started about 100 years ago, but has become "progressively" worse.
And no, the system we were founded on DOES work. The problem is that we´ve stopped keeping vigilance & don´t hold our government accountable. It is incumbent on ALL of us to TELL our reps & senators what they need to be doing or get rid of them. We have become lazy and don´t do anything. People here say "well, what can we do???" Pick up the phone, write letters, organize, turn off the danged TV!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
shamus, 1/1/2013 5:55:42 AM (No. 9092669)
No one in DC takes the Constitution seriously.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/1/2013 6:44:47 AM (No. 9092687)
17´s right.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/1/2013 6:50:39 AM (No. 9092691)
Georgetown needs to scrap Louis Michael Seidman.
Here´s his university webpage bio After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1971, Professor Seidman served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He then was a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service until joining the Law Center faculty in 1976. He teaches a variety of courses in the fields of constitutional and criminal law. He is co-author of a constitutional law casebook and the author of many articles concerning criminal justice and constitutional law. His most recent books are On Constitutional Disobedience (Oxford, 2012); Silence and Freedom (Stanford 2007); Equal Protection of the Laws (Foundation 2002); and Our Unsettled Constitution: A New Defense of Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (Yale 2001). In 2011, Seidman was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
So? My roommate was elected to AAAS in ´03 and thinks the Constitution is just fine.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/1/2013 7:53:14 AM (No. 9092744)
Socialist like this moron and others need to go to their homeland like Cuba, North Korea, etc.. Where did all of these fruit cakes come from? The sad thing is this guy is a so called professor teaching our young people and the future leaders of our country this garbage, tell me it is not so!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jglas, 1/1/2013 8:06:17 AM (No. 9092759)
Of course, it´s the only thing that stands between Obama becoming a totalitarian tyrant and America being free.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
franq, 1/1/2013 8:15:28 AM (No. 9092770)
It´s already been scrapped. We´re on our way to anarchy. Thank God NC has a Republican governor for the first time since 1993 (only the 3rd in in the last 100 years). These men and women will be the de facto presidents when it all falls apart.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/1/2013 9:06:04 AM (No. 9092841)
Watch Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg ask Morsi for a copy of their new constitution so that we can model ours after theirs.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
RU4us, 1/1/2013 9:33:07 AM (No. 9092888)
... I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ... Military Oath of Enlistment
Oaths for Office of Senate, Congress and President contain the same. Time for a Coup and a purge.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 1/1/2013 9:34:36 AM (No. 9092889)
I really wanted to comment on this, because just the quote took my breath away like a punch in the gut.
But I can´t stop weeping......
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/1/2013 9:45:28 AM (No. 9092908)
There is a good reason for revenue bills to originate in the House. When our country was founded, U.S. senators were not elected, but instead selected by state legislatures. The president was selected by the electoral college, without a popular vote. Onlly the members of the House were directly elected. Those House members would be closest to the will of the people. It makes sense if you think about it.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/1/2013 9:48:21 AM (No. 9092913)
I´d rather scrap Seidman. In fact, I actively call for him to be fired from Georgetown.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
fhancock, 1/1/2013 10:09:34 AM (No. 9092950)
Saw his picture...another mastermind with nosehair
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Muguy, 1/1/2013 10:18:28 AM (No. 9092966)
Did Sandra "give me birth control or give me death" Fluck study with this man?
One thing is certainly very clear--the Constitutional system of "Checks and Balances" is no longer a valued proposition to the libs who want to create what Mark Levin calls an "Ameritopia"!
He is free to say what he wants, but what is worse is that there are people who should know this man is full of crap!
God help us!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
voxlapidis, 1/1/2013 10:34:04 AM (No. 9092993)
So we scrap the Constitution and we get 50 Independent States.
How´s that for the professor getting what he wants?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
tss1, 1/1/2013 10:36:11 AM (No. 9092998)
What is it about the Jewish intellectual Left that drives them to try to destroy, change or scrap the only governing system that has not tried to exterminate them from the planet. Socialism/communism wiped them out in the millions, yet they long for the good old days around their coffee at Starbucks. Many have achieved great success in this country, and all they want to do is change it. To what? Totalitarian control that will eventually turn on them. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/1/2013 10:36:58 AM (No. 9093000)
He´s just a law professor in an inside the Beltway ivory tower. I wouldn´t get too worked up about his opinions or influence, which is negligible.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
artman1746, 1/1/2013 10:57:58 AM (No. 9093040)
This guy simply says out loud what most liberals (Democrats) believe and practice. The Constitution was thrown out with the acceptance of the "living" Constitution. People don´t seem to recognize that we are only one liberal SCOTUS away from tyranny by five judges. Regardless of what they say, or pledge, liberal judges have no intention of following the Constitution. Like Robert Bork said, liberals determine what they wish the law said and then find a path to the result they want. Exactly backwards. So a "living" Constitution gives them the latitude they desire to remake the culture and society.
Liberals pledge to defend the "living" Constitution, not the Constitution the Founders gave us. So they amend it with every decision, ignoring the amendment process outlined in the document itself. And we sit by and allow it.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 1/1/2013 11:04:32 AM (No. 9093059)
Scrapping it would at least require effort. The leftist bastids dem and repub do much better with ignoring it. Who in power today defends the Constitution? The house? The senate? Judicial? Surely not the white house. The Constitution is being shredded on a daily basis by the very people trusted to uphold and defend it. Treason? At the very least!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 1/1/2013 12:37:26 PM (No. 9093223)
No, and don´t suggest it again. I have spoken.
Stopstoreload, BA,JD
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
RU4us, 1/1/2013 1:16:06 PM (No. 9093296)
We have survived and would continue to survive the living constitution crowd. That´s what (U.S.)liberals do: interpret the Constitution liberally. However, this crew ignores it and augments it, just as 33 above put it so well. As there will not be a coup nor a purge, were I still in business, I would not be stealing from my employees pay and sending it to the government. Up the Revolution!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Roll Tide, 1/1/2013 2:08:24 PM (No. 9093340)
Hasn´t this pretty much already been accomplished without actually coming out and saying so?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 1/1/2013 2:47:48 PM (No. 9093380)
Say what? How about we scrap Tenure and your job...
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 1/1/2013 4:28:11 PM (No. 9093488)
My response to him rhymes with "duck shoe!!". However, since this is a salon, not a saloon, I will remain the lady my mother raised and hold my tongue.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/1/2013 4:46:03 PM (No. 9093505)
I can´t help laughing at the college students of today going into massive debt to sit and listen to garbage like this. Better to learn to be a plumber or electrician and be something useful in life. Colleges are out of control and anti-American and certainly NOT worth the cost of admission.
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USA Today, by Catalina Camia
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Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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Special ops veterans’ group calls for select probe of Benghazi attack
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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook victims to D.C. on Air Force One so they can back gun control in person
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain blast Cruz for threatening filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping, Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused of raping adopted children will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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