Perhaps the biggest waste of Charles Koch’s (and others’) money by the beltwaytarians has been the Cato Institute’s giving away of tens of thousands of little “pocket constitutions” over the past twenty years or so. Their strategy was apparently to get people to read them, and then somehow magically “force” the government to obey the document. Yesterday’s majority opinion, written by the conniving little totalitarian left winger John Roberts, proves once again what I have been saying for years: Ever since 1865, Americans have lived under the “Hamiltonian constitution” whereby the document is used as a rubber stamp of approval for virtually anything the politicians in Washington can dream up. This is how government lawyers with lifetime tenure (our “black-robed deities”) like John Roberts view their jobs. This was Alexander Hamilton’s take on how the Constitution should be used. It eclipsed the Jeffersonian vision of a government “bound by the chains of the Constitution” many generations ago.
The beltwaytarians will never admit this, for to do so is to dispute the state’s false version of the “Civil War” and its consequences, and they are far too politically correct to do so. It was Woodrow Wilson who, in his book, Constitutional Government in the United States (p. 178), celebrated the fact that the North’s victory in the “Civil War” brought about the practice of the Supreme Court being the sole arbiter of the constitutionality of federal legislation. “The War between the States established . . . this principle, that the federal government is, through its courts, the final judge of its own powers,” Wilson wrote.
The Jeffersonians never believed that a written constitution alone would be sufficient to restrain the tyrannical proclivities of the state. That’s why Jefferson himself championed the rights of secession and nullification until his dying days. Read John C. Calhoun’s Disquisition on Government if you are interested in an adult analysis of “constitutional government” and are not a cowardly beltway-area “libertarian” whose primary goal in life is to be “accepted” by the Washington establishment and the politically-correct totalitarian leftists in academe.
11:33 am on June 29, 2012
