The Weakening Constitution
By: Chris Suriani (3 hours ago)
Topics: Constitution, suriani, Lautenberg, population
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat from New Jersey, has discovered some potentially disastrous information regarding our constitutional protections. . January 20, 2011. REUTERS/Zap Ragrat
The Constitution of the United Stated was designed around a limited population size.
The constitution as originally penned was designed to govern approximately 75 million people. That threshold was crossed in 1900, but with the amendments and reinterpretations the current version should lend protection to just over 300 million residents. We currently sit at that level.
The problem that Sen. Lautenberg has found is that we are giving Constitutional protection and rights to non residents. This has pushed the Constitution near its theoretical operating limit and it may fail any day now.
An emergency bill is being voted on in congress this weekend to limit constitutional rights from select groups of citizens until a way of reinforcing the constitution can be found.
As it stands now the bill will repeal the rights of people aged 37 to 44, people aged 77, and people who have a last name beginning with R. Many south western states are expected to fight against the names beginning with R part of the Bill.
Many Latino residents are already protesting that they are being singled out and contest that if the letter S was used instead we could still protect the 77 year old population.
