[MP] Did you have a say in re-drafting the 14th Amendment via your representative
legislators as is your right under the Constitution? No. You may not see that as a loss of freedom, but I sure do. I want a say in it if we are going to modify the Constitution. So did the framers of the Constitution which is why they gave us, the people, not the judges that right. [Krimel] The Court did not "re-draft" anything they did exactly what they are charged with doing: they interpreted the law. They did not modify it one whit. The framers of the constitution recognized the need for this and built the function directly into the document. Judges do not write law except in the twisted minds of the religious right, whose penchant for warping language makes any kind of interpretation problematic. [MP] The 14th Amendment was written when there were already 36 states with laws restricting abortion. I wonder how it is that 7 Judges in the 1970s could take it upon themselves to determine what the 14th Amendment "actually" meant to do to the Constitution when they wrote it better than its framers over 100 years before them. [Krimel] Well Mr. Civic's Whiz, this is news to me. When the 14th amendment was written there were only 37 states in the union. I have not bothered to check on this but I seriously doubt that 36 out of 37 had such laws. Those 7 judges took it upon themselves to determine what that amendment "actually" means because that is what we pay they to do. That is what the constitution charges them with doing. [MP] Point is: why not dump R v.W and either: amend the Constitution as is our right as the people to provide a right to privacy, legislate a national law on abortion or some combination of both? [Krimel] Why not pump helium up an elephant's ass and see if it will fly? The matter is settled. Whining is futile. But hey, grab a sign, go protest, shorten the line at IHOP. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
