Constitutional
scholar and radio show host, Mark Levin, has written a book proposing 10
amendments for the US Constitution to help restore liberty and federalism.
“One
of Levin’s proposed Liberty Amendments reins in the judicial branch, setting term
limits of 12 years for Supreme Court justices, and giving Congress the
power to override Supreme Court opinions with a three-fifths vote, without risk
of presidential veto. Three-fifths of the state legislatures can also
join forces to knock down a Court decision.
That’s
a recurring theme of the Liberty Amendments: the restoration of both
congressional and state power. As Levin
repeatedly reminds us, nothing worried the Founders more than the rise of a
despotic national executive, such as the one we have now. The
original states never would have signed on to a federal government that turned
them into puppets. There were strong logical arguments against these
outcomes, which power-hungry progressives understood quite well, back when they
first set about overturning the Constitutional order.
Modern progressives don’t
think they need to understand those arguments any more, because the foundation
of the total State has been laid, and the clock can never be “turned back,” as
one of their favorite slogans has it. This should leave them at a severe
intellectual disadvantage, if the Liberty Amendments become a topic of national
debate.”
John Hayward
Human Events
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