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Yes, new laws overriding old ones is just common sense. Where I imagine you could get a crisis is if an amendment passes and then some (powerful) people then s
by adrianratnapala 9y ago
Yes, new laws overriding old ones is just common sense.
Where I imagine you could get a crisis is if an amendment passes and then some (powerful) people then say "oh by the by -- did you notice that it implicitly limits X part of the bill of rights".
Still this is not very likely. Not because people in the US don't want to wind back fundamental rights. But because they have easier ways of doing it than passing amendments -- even sly ones.
- philwelch 9y agoAlso, this is kind of the point of doing so by amendment. The old idea of amending the constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage was designed to forestall an Obergefell v. Hodges type decision. On the other side of the aisle, constitutional amendments around campaign finance or corporate personhood would supersede the interpretation of the First Amendment applied in Citizens United v. FEC.