{"id":3404,"date":"2018-10-16T05:56:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2018-10-16T05:56:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:56:09","slug":"the-democrats-constitution-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3404","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats’ Constitution Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, when a judge the Left doesn\u2019t like is, in Brett Kavanaugh, seated on the high bench, the complaining starts about how the senators who confirmed him didn\u2019t represent a majority of the voters. \u201cIt\u2019s not about Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s alleged behavior. It\u2019s about justices who do not represent the will of the majority,\u201d says a column in the Times by no less a figure than Michael Tomasky.<\/p>\n

That, of course, would be like complaining that the justices do not, say, take in home sewing. It\u2019s not their job to take in home sewing. Their job is decide actual cases and controversies. Nor is it the job of the senators to represent the will of the majority. That is the job of the Representative House, the only house whose seats are apportioned by population. The job of the Senators is to represent the states.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the Senate\u2019s very purpose. The Left likes to suggest that the only reason for this was to protect slavery. Yet even the original Constitution anticipated an end to slavery. It still made the equal representation of the states in the Senate the only feature of the parchment that could never be amended absent the consent of the state being denied equal representation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I blame the 17th Amendment. The Senate is no longer chosen by the State governments but by the people, same as the House. In effect we have two Houses of Representatives. The State governments are unrepresented.<\/p>\n

Do you really think that a Senate that represented the States would vote unfunded mandates on their States?<\/p>\n

Source: The Democrats’ Constitution Problem<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, when a judge the Left doesn\u2019t like is, in Brett Kavanaugh, seated on the high bench, the complaining starts about how the senators who confirmed him didn\u2019t represent a majority of the voters. \u201cIt\u2019s not about Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s alleged behavior. It\u2019s about justices who do not represent the will of the majority,\u201d says a … Continue reading The Democrats’ Constitution Problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,125,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-evil","category-democrats","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}