Constitutional Law Professor: Get Rid of the Constitution!
Seidman on the other hand wrote an op-ed in the New York Times with the headline, “Let’s Give Up on the Constitution.” His article makes the ridiculous claim that the reason our country and government are in such disarray is not because our elected leaders completely ignore the Constitution, but precisely because they’ve been abiding by it for so long. No, he’s not joking, and as for his mental status, one can only imagine. He stated that our problems are rooted in “our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.” He mocked the idea of original intent and compared it to this hypothetical situation:
“Imagine that after careful study a
government official — say, the president or one of the party leaders in
Congress — reaches a considered judgment that a particular course of
action is best for the country. Suddenly, someone bursts into the room
with new information: a group of white propertied men who have been dead
for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted
illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might
have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational
that the official should change his or her mind because of this
divination?”
It’s the “particular course of action that is best for the county”
that is frightening. Seidman wants all of us “Constitution nuts” to let
the president be free to make these decisions for us as long as he
thinks it’s “best for the country.” So if Chairman Obama decides that
it’s best for the country to disarm all law-abiding citizens, there
should be no Congressional opposition, no references to the 2nd
Amendment, no federal lawsuits, no petitions and certainly no
resurrections of the writings of the founding fathers. After all, the
founding fathers didn’t know anything about fighting off a tyrannical
government. And besides, they owned slaves.The Constitution was designed to prevent a dictatorship. No wonder Obama and Seidman don’t like it. It’s too restrictive. The various checks and balances and layers of government were there to make it impossible (or nearly impossible) for one person to call the shots and overrule everybody else. We’re a Republic “if we can keep it,” said Ben Franklin, and we’re not doing a good job keeping it.
Only a moral society can take the Constitution seriously. And since we’re not a moral society anymore, the politicians we elect don’t care about the Constitution, and people like Seidman are calling for it to be abolished.
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