Media is the Message

 

Any reasonable investigation into how we got so far from the Constitution so fast has to come back to one incredibly simple answer: the media.

Sure, politicians seek to undermine the Constitution, because it’s the only thing that limits or attempts to limit their power. They have always sought to undermine its authority. That’s why Chief Justice Marshall devised a role for the Supreme Court to rule on Constitutionality. Or, he was just a power-hungry megalomaniac, maybe both. By 1801, the politicians had already sought to worm their way around the limitations of the Constitution and Marshall leapt on Marbury v Madison to insert the Supreme Court as an arbiter of Constitutionality. I maintain, and always have, that Marshall lacked jurisdiction and he admitted in his memoirs that he took the case with the purpose of devising a role for the Supreme Court.

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