The New American ^ | Sunday, 01 May 2011 | Selwyn Duke
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2011 12:49:51 PM by Paladins Prayer
There is a simple reason why we don’t have constitutional government: By and large, most Americans don’t want it. In fact, most don’t even know what it would entail.
This is true even of most people who preach adherence to the Constitution.
Just recently I lunched with a fellow commentator, an extremely nice man (he really is) who is part of the conservative blogosphere. As you might imagine, politics, religion and philosophy were the stuff of our conversation, and we found ourselves largely in agreement until….
That is, until the issue of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) somehow arose and my amiable colleague started singing its praises.
This prompted me to aver that, good idea or not, the act is unconstitutional. My lunch mate didn’t deny this — but nor did he accept it. Instead, he provided a few reasons why he believed it was necessary, despite my pointing out that constitutionalism is not a pick-and-choose proposition.
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