Ivy League professors write another op-ed
suggesting it’s time to jettison the Constitution
American Thinker,
by
Olivia Murray
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
8/23/2022 5:02:16 AM
No doubt still sulking over the Roe v. Wade reversal — the opening sentence of their recent op-ed published in The New York Times is, “When liberals lose at the Supreme Court — as they increasingly have over the past half-century” — two Ivy League professors laid out their claims for an America without Constitutional limitations. They suggest, “the way to seek real freedom will be to use procedures consistent with popular rule.” Of course, the piece is polished sewage: tyranny of the majority is a very real, and very dangerous threat to the individual, (perhaps they should go read Federalist 10, but they likely wouldn’t understand that either).
Reply 1 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/23/2022 5:38:01 AM (No. 1256711)
Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn are the Harvard professors (had to follow a link in the article to see who the dimwits were) that proclaimed that our Constitution was preventing redistributive change. What these two individuals are proposing is that citizens that have any money be forced to provide that money to citizens who do not have any money. What a load of claptrap. But wait that sounds like our current tax code. Doerfler and Moyn want a Government that is not constrained in what it can or cannot do with citizens wealth. God bless our founders for they knew that temptation existed even in the late 1700's. I have an idea, let Doerfler and Moyn, vowing an oath of eternal poverty, give all their wealth to the Government to distribute to everyone else
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/23/2022 6:01:43 AM (No. 1256724)
The Ivy League is Broken.... What garbage are they teaching our kids? Time is nigh to redistribute their endowments!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/23/2022 6:23:11 AM (No. 1256728)
Here we go, just as I expected. This will be the narrative going forward. A few radicals begin this rhetoric to advise the rest of their crowd that it is okay to call for the open destruction of our founding documents and the philosophy behind them because they have a better way. They want this outlandish idea to take hold and it will among the left especially the younger set. Once, the quiet part is said out loud that is the signal for the rest to jump on the bandwagon. We must be prepared to challenge these people and do so vigorously. This will not go away nor will they. It is just the beginning. They are planting a damnable seed that will germinate and produce more of the same and before long this will be a regular talking point of the democrat party.
The country was fine until the radicals showed their red faces shortly after WWII, then radicalism was embedded into academia, entertainment and politics and here we are today in the most dangerous situation the country has known. The democrat party has decided to break with the very foundation that created this country. Passivity is no longer an option. This heresy must be addressed immediately. Are you listening, Republicans?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/23/2022 6:49:39 AM (No. 1256740)
Out of their own mouths they confess to sedition. Maybe it's time to jettison those professors and their ilk.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Goose 8/23/2022 6:55:42 AM (No. 1256744)
Of course the Constitution is broken! YOU broke it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/23/2022 6:56:45 AM (No. 1256746)
What we have at the moment is tyranny by the minority, which is even worse. The only thing keeping that violent, thieving, mentally ill minority alive is the restraint of good decent American citizens who are very close to doing what law enforcement won't do.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 8/23/2022 7:05:24 AM (No. 1256752)
I thought they already had.....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/23/2022 7:21:23 AM (No. 1256768)
I strongly disagree that the Constitution is broken. ANY written document can be ignored or violated if the people that it applies to allow it to be. A document cannot defend itself. The Constitution is the words of the American People at the founding of the Country. As it happens, they are some of the most powerful and liberating words EVER written and agreed to. It is up to US as the inheritors of our ancestors words to defend them and follow them. If we do not, is is US that is broken, NOT the Constitution.
Further, if in seeking fixes for various issues we cast aside the Constitution en masse, it is almost guaranteed that we will end up with an vastly inferior means of government. The Constitution contains within it the means for change. It is a slow and deliberate process that requires consensus among federal and state governments. It requires a significant PURPOSE to fight for, like voting rights for women, and COMMITMENT.
Further, the Constitution is NOT meant to be the ultimate authority on ALL issues. In fact MOST issues are relegated to the STATES or the PEOPLE. Abortion is one such issue.
On the other hand, the Constitution DOES clearly assign duties to the various federal powers and the power to make laws lies within the elected Legislature, NOT the hired employees of the agencies of the Executive bureaucracy. These agencies have NO accountability to the People. Of course for dictators, such unaccountable and often extralegal power is desirable. The recent SCOTUS decision rightly states that such authority does not exist under the Constitution. Elected legislators must pass laws with clearly stated intent to carry out federal actions. Do YOU want to be ruled by arbitrary Washington bureaucrats? If so, tossing out the Constitution may be OK with you. Hopefully for most of us, THAT would be a VERY foolish choice.
The type of government we have was quoted by Franklin as, "A republic, if you can keep it.". It is up to US to appreciate and preserve our government, a task which has been corrupted over the years by hostile forces within the country. No, our country is not perfect but it's structure allows her People to be in charge. Those people make flawed decisions at times. We should not seek a structure that blocks the People's decisions but instead work to fix the decisions themselves. In most other forms of government, the People have limited power to direct their own fate.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
marbles 8/23/2022 7:30:14 AM (No. 1256778)
No, our Constitution is not " broken ". A dumb word used quite often by the left. The left hates our Constitution because it limits their power. They want the rule, not govern. Our Constitution prevents that. Our founders were brilliant people, ivy league lawyers, not so much.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
downnout 8/23/2022 7:38:53 AM (No. 1256783)
I would be delighted to relieve the professors of some of their “guilt” money.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 8/23/2022 7:40:21 AM (No. 1256785)
More evidence that no parent in their right mind would allow their child to attend an Ivy League University.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/23/2022 7:49:23 AM (No. 1256793)
These insider elite fools think that somehow without the constitution that they'd still be in the cool kids club. They'll be among the first relegated to the van down by the river if their wish was to ever be fulfilled.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NamVet70 8/23/2022 8:06:33 AM (No. 1256803)
Mothers, don't let your boys become Ivy League pajama boys!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 8/23/2022 8:10:54 AM (No. 1256806)
It's not the tyranny of the majority. It's the tyranny of the minority. Nothing advocated for or legislative packages passed were wanted by the majority or help the majority. Its why poll numbers are in the toilet for demosluts. I think the majority would be happy as hell that instead of just a midterm election in November, it was a general election electing a new administration.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PostAway 8/23/2022 8:39:00 AM (No. 1256832)
I see a huge difference in today’s Ivy League professors and America’s founding fathers. Today’s profs are too often pure academics. They have not so much as to saddle a horse to get anywhere let alone be a part of full-time main occupations like the Founders whose ranks included: physician, inventor and printer, hemp farmer, tobacco farmer, shipping merchant, etc. Today’s Ivy League professoriate spend their days inside their heads building sand castles in the sky. Their real world experience and its people are something they disdain rather than understand and humbly serve.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/23/2022 9:52:02 AM (No. 1256912)
If we Jettison the Constitution we Jettison America.
When the Constitution dies America is done for.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/23/2022 9:54:05 AM (No. 1256919)
What the left is incapable of understanding is that the US Constitution is not about a culture at a particular moment in time. It is about human behavior, which is consistent throughout history. Just as the works of Sophocles and Shakespeare are immortal because they deal in human truths, so is the Constitution. Our Founders were remarkably prescient when it came to the tendencies of the powerful. What these Ivy Leaguers want is mob rule.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/23/2022 9:59:37 AM (No. 1256926)
I believe that if we jettison the constitution and embrace socialism/communism, these two elite dummies, along with many of their professor friends, will be some of the first to stand in front of a firing squad!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 8/23/2022 10:19:23 AM (No. 1256959)
wait a mnute!!!! " ... two Ivy League professors ... " is that all it takes to make a majority in the Ivy League?
Question: and replace the Constitution with what, exactly?
Answer: V.I Lenin's tome "What is to be Done"?
it's certainly commie enough but not commie enough for " ... two Ivy League professors ..." so, a thought, the water is deep enough at the Longfellow Bridge so, two cinder blocks, a little rope attached to " ... two Ivy League professors ... " ankles, toss them off the bridge, reslt ... two openings on the Harvard faculty.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
FormerDem 8/23/2022 10:26:54 AM (No. 1256976)
Another effect of zero knowledge of history - they don't understand why WHY the Constitution is a good set of intelligent tradeoffs. They don't know what happened before and what will happen again.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
columba 8/23/2022 10:27:19 AM (No. 1256977)
The animals who started the French Revolution tought similarly.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
TJ54 8/23/2022 11:21:13 AM (No. 1257042)
They can lead by example - give THEIR money away to the freeloaders
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 8/23/2022 12:00:46 PM (No. 1257073)
My wife and I talked about this one yesterday. Most of today's electeds are lawyers. This is being pushed by law professors. Just imagine the next generation of lawyers' contempt for the Constitution having been cultivated by professors like these...and then they become the next generation of electeds.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2022 12:13:13 PM (No. 1257082)
Time to jettison these "professors", certainly to the janitorial staff, but perhaps even farther.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
paral04 8/23/2022 3:05:48 PM (No. 1257203)
Au contraire, it is time to cancel the Ivy League. The schools were founded or funded by slave traders. We can't have this. Turn those schools into nice corporate headquarters or perhaps convention centers.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mifla 8/24/2022 5:49:40 AM (No. 1257582)
I am going to write an op-ed suggesting it is time we jettison the Ivy League.
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