For a long time now the trend has gone against the Constitution. The latest Supreme Court ruling that proves that as long as it is considered a tax the people can be forced to buy anything. The penalty for not buying shoes, handbags, cars or any other crazy thing they want us to buy to pay off their political friends can be as high as the products themselves so long as it is considered a tax.
The First Amendment has been under fire by hate speech crimes, by the the fact that one supports life over abortion and the laws against protesting certain political figures as long as the Secret Service denies the opportunity.
The Second Amendment has been denied in every important way already.
The Fourth Amendment has been under fire since the passage of the Patriot Act and has been heightened under the Obama Administration who seeks to use drones to surveil every movement of the people and the development of the TSA into an intrusive and invasive police force. 106 independent political organizations (towns and cities) have been given permission to begin flying drones over our heads to keep track of us, to identify organizations pursuing their First Amendment rights to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The Fifth Amendment has been by-passed by all manner of invasions from forcible DNA samples to surveillance techniques unheard of before.
The Ninth Amendment has never been given any weight in a court of law.
The Tenth Amendment has been trampled on by government coercion and extortion.
The big question to ask yourself is why is the Sixteenth Amendment sacred to a point of violation the due process clause?
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A stunning piece, to say the least. I have since reposted it on my own blog as well. I'm a little put off by the constitutionalist emphases - even from a constitutionalist standpoint, the Constitution has been a dead letter since the Civil War, if not muchearlier - but all in all a well-reasoned article, which is what I have come to expect from Mr. Davis.
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