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The Constitution was meant to give people rights and protections and it was clear in many places "should not infringe". Then people of all political colors star
by AdrianB1 4y ago
The Constitution was meant to give people rights and protections and it was clear in many places "should not infringe". Then people of all political colors started to walk the slippery slope of "we don not infringe, we regulate", eating away the Constitution meaning. Most US citizens that I know (only a few hundreds, but that gives a reasonable sample size) agree with most of these "regulations", about half of them even want to remove parts of the rights in the Constitution, so the protection that it provides is eroding every single day. Put on top of that invented concepts that don't exist in any law like qualified immunity and you are half on that slippery slope, building speed downwards.
For a long time I had an envy for US to have so clear rights by their Constitution. Boy, I was naive to believe they still exist. Context info: I was born and lived in Communist Eastern Europe, in my country there is practically no right by Constitution but to pay taxes.