Most of our laws violate the 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment supposedly guarantees equal protection under the law.
If that amendment were actually followed, we wouldn’t have this immense government, we wouldn’t be in a recession now, and we wouldn’t be indebted to the Chinese.
Let’s take, for example, this crazy “stimulus” bill the House just passed today. It provides for an $8,000 tax credit to first time home buyers:
the compromise provides first-time homebuyers a tax credit of up to $8,000, and it doesn’t have to be repaid over the life of the mortgage.
Okay. I think that is a stupid idea, but no matter, it is just one of several thousand stupid ideas the bill funds.
But this one has a catch. I can’t get this benefit. Nor can many other Americans. I bought my first house in 1988. I’ll never again be a “first time homebuyer”.
So here is a law, that as written, un-equally applies to much of the population.
Breaking the equal protection clause isn’t a party thing – Republicans and Democrats do it. If our Supreme Court really wanted to protect the Constitution, rather than rewrite it every time they meet, they would strike down numerous laws, like this “stimulus” bill as violating the 14th amendment, prima facie.
But they won’t. They are too busy inventing things not in the Constitution to actually apply what is written plain as day in it.
Until the Constitution is applied as written, and until the 16th amendment is revoked, we are on a one way slide to oblivion. Written to protect former slaves, ignoring the 14th Amendment guarantees mob rule and tyranny.