Comments on: Constitutional Government is so Passe http://www.pagunblog.com/2008/09/04/constitutional-government-is-so-passe/ The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stormy Dragon http://www.pagunblog.com/2008/09/04/constitutional-government-is-so-passe/#comment-29397 Stormy Dragon Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:39:12 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=5062#comment-29397 >I’m continually frustrated by conservative legal theorists who wish the courts >would surrender large swaths of their judicial power to the elected branches of >government When the GOP got the majority in both houses during the Clinton years, they got into a big populism kick, trying to convince the unwashed masses how great they are and that they have a right to demand any full thing that comes into their head just because there's more of them. Now that they've lost control of congress, it's hard to reign in the mob they've spent years build and tell them that maybe just because something is popular doesn't make it right and that there needs to be some sort of limit on getting what they want. >I’m continually frustrated by conservative legal theorists who wish the courts
>would surrender large swaths of their judicial power to the elected branches of
>government

When the GOP got the majority in both houses during the Clinton years, they got into a big populism kick, trying to convince the unwashed masses how great they are and that they have a right to demand any full thing that comes into their head just because there’s more of them.

Now that they’ve lost control of congress, it’s hard to reign in the mob they’ve spent years build and tell them that maybe just because something is popular doesn’t make it right and that there needs to be some sort of limit on getting what they want.

]]> By: teqjack http://www.pagunblog.com/2008/09/04/constitutional-government-is-so-passe/#comment-29350 teqjack Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:15:03 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=5062#comment-29350 I pretty much stopped reading Graglia as soon as I saw the idiocy that the 5-4 split was about whether there is an individual right: for the Xth time, <i>all nine</i> agreed that it is an individual right <i>and</i> that the Constitution so states. Uh, elsewhere I noticed that they are finally allowing one of DC`s FFL holders to act, and he has agreed to do so (if expensively - he really does not want to, his business is with agencies and others who buy in bulk, so a high fee may hold down applicants). Still nothing with a clip/magaine (yeah, I know there is a difference to purists, but how many o us are likely to even come across, let be <i>buy</i> a "broom handle" Mauser?) allowed, though. How abut a .50 muzzle-loaded matchlock? I pretty much stopped reading Graglia as soon as I saw the idiocy that the 5-4 split was about whether there is an individual right: for the Xth time, all nine agreed that it is an individual right and that the Constitution so states.

Uh, elsewhere I noticed that they are finally allowing one of DC`s FFL holders to act, and he has agreed to do so (if expensively – he really does not want to, his business is with agencies and others who buy in bulk, so a high fee may hold down applicants). Still nothing with a clip/magaine (yeah, I know there is a difference to purists, but how many o us are likely to even come across, let be buy a “broom handle” Mauser?) allowed, though. How abut a .50 muzzle-loaded matchlock?

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