--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an interesting trivia question..... > > Who was the last sitting President to openly endorse > a Constitutional > Amendment? > > JDG
Well, I know Lincoln did. He actually signed the 13th Amendment (by accident, and it didn't have any legal force). But there must have been quite a few after that, I just can't think of who. Now, who was the last sitting President to endorse an Amendment that is this bad an idea? I have no idea. If you want to cast this as a battle against judicial usurpation of legislative power, fine. We conservatives should shut the hell up on that topic until we get rid of Rehnquist (whom we idiotically put on the bench), probably the worst Chief Justice since Tawney, who is more responsible for that than any other judge in America. Earl Warren, by contrast, was a model of judicial deference to the legislative branch. The rot began with Burger, but it's Rehnquist who has done the most damage. We certainly shouldn't be amending the oldest governing document in history, the blueprint of the most successful government in the entire history of the human race, ovr this issue. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
