| raymor |
10-27-2008 07:14 PM |
It'll be interesting to see what happens in the
next few days as people hear Obama say in a radio
interview that his biggest problem with the Supreme
Court is that it has failed to "break free from the essential
contraints of the constitution", in order to accomplish
"redistribution of wealth". His full quote:
Quote:
The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution
of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic
justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people
try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical.
It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were
placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as
it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the
same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative
liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the
federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the
federal government or state government must do on your behalf.
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