Democrats are at war with the Constitution

Mackubin Thomas Owens:
The sturm und drang accompanying the recent Brett Kavanaugh confirmation obscures an important point. It had less to do with Kavanaugh than with the Constitution itself. Progressives, who have long dominated the Democratic Party, have never been fond of the Constitution as drafted by the Founders. The latter saw it as a framework for sharing power within a republican government, the only form of government capable of protecting the liberty and natural rights of citizens.

Founding Progressives such as Woodrow Wilson, on the other hand, saw the Constitution, with its separation of powers and federalism, as an obstacle to their enterprise of using government to solve the country’s social problems. Its checks and balances could not accommodate the necessary new programs and agencies. But the Progressives nonetheless paid obeisance to the document, arguing only that its interpretation must change with the times. It was to be a “living” constitution.

The sort of jurists that President Trump has been nominating reject this Progressive argument. Thus the embarrassing clown show staged by the Democrats during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

But now the Democrats are going further, happily attacking the Constitution itself: it is, they contend, not sufficiently democratic, as illustrated by such elements as the Electoral College and the makeup of the Senate in which each state, no matter how large or small, gets two senators. For you see, Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed by senators representing less than half the population.
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He goes on to quote Madison on why the Constitution was structured to require concern for the national interest of all the states and not just the urban masses. 

The Democrats who are whining now about the makeup of the Senate were silent when they had a 60 vote majority only a few years ago and used to cram down a much hated Obamacare healthcare requirement which resulted in them losing that majority. 

The fact is that it is unlikely there would ever have been a United States if the small states could be crushed by urban centers.  Those urban centers would then be without the energy, manufacturing, and farm produce needed to take care of themselves.

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