Lot’s Of Arm Waving & Hand Wringing But Little Value
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read
Having taught political and legal college courses for decades, this article lacks any utility to readers. Taking your points in order presented, please note the following misleading comments.
- This political “crisis” has been centuries in coming.
- The result will be neither an amending of the Constitution nor a decoration, not that either is a bad idea. Rather, amnesia will return.
- Trump’s first constitutional “crisis” was the day he took office and the emoluments clause.
- First Muslim ban was handled exactly as outlined in Constitution. Suggesting rogue law enforcement is novel neglects rogue civil rights era behavior and other events.
- To say the “bug” in the system is that Congress is subservient to President is gross hyperbole. Ask Obama.
- The true “bug” in the system is that only politicians can make the rules governing their own behavior. Free pass to advance a career over the interests of the country.
- All Presidents claim in some way to be above the law. That is not news.
- You say, “This is not a failure of democracy, but rather its best function: the ability to fix itself when it breaks.” Silly. Your entire argument is that it can only be fixed by amending the Constitution. The last time that “fix” was tried was with the Equal Rights Amendment — three sentences — to fix an obvious unfairness. It failed.
- When U.S. assists other countries to create their Constitutions there has been a preference for parliamentary systems, which would mitigate your basic concern here.
- Real problem is the system as a whole. It is an antiquated, medieval print era conceptual design completely out of touch with this era and what is ahead.
Doc Huston
