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If your interpretation of the role of the federal government is true, there are thousands of laws - such that we’re looking at a meltdown of civil society in am
by kennywinker 4y ago
If your interpretation of the role of the federal government is true, there are thousands of laws - such that we’re looking at a meltdown of civil society in america if they’re all overturned. But a theocratic and biased court is now using that interpretation to strike down the specific laws they were appointed to break. Not all the laws that fall outside that interpretation, just the ones they don’t like.
You can’t have it both ways. Either you have a civil society with things like an FDA and an EPA, or you have none of that and a deeply dysfunctional country.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoSo if we're not to use the Constitution to determine what are the proper legal powers of the federal government, how can we decide what the rules are to be? It seems like you're advocating just tossing out the Constitution since it's inconvenient.
- kennywinker 4y agoWell the system we had before the american taliban took over the court was working pretty well - inferring rights, and responsibilities from an agreed upon intent of the constitution - i.e. freedom, separation of church and state, federal oversight of cross-state issues, etc.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThat sounds nice in theory but intractable when 40% of the country agree on one ‘intent’ and 40% agree on a dramatically different ‘intent’.