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No, the Constitution is not inflexible. However, if we don't like a portion of it (such as the 10th Ammendment) we shouldn't simply ignore it. If we start ignoring a portion here and a portion there then why even have the document? There is a proper process for changing Ammendments, and that process has not occured - so we are currently disregarding a portion of the Constitution. Why don't we just ignore Amendment 1 as well? Or Amendment 2? And so on....
That's what I believe we are doing here - ignoring an essential portion of the Constitution that the founding fathers felt was as important to include in the original document as the words: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Are we going to start "ranking" the Bill of Rights (of which Ammendment 10 is a part)? Should we just ignore some of them?
I'm sure most of you have read "Animal Farm" and recall how their animal "Bill of Rights" gradually got changed as rules were ignored or altered to benefit some individuals over others. It is a classic piece of literature on how dictatorships emerge - slowly and subtley. I am not suggesting that ignoring Ammendment 10 of the Bill of Rights immediately leads to a dicatorship. But, I am suggesting that ignoring part of the Bill of Rights sets a precedent for ignoring other ammendments which dictatorships would find "distasteful"....
Jennifer
That's what I believe we are doing here - ignoring an essential portion of the Constitution that the founding fathers felt was as important to include in the original document as the words: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Are we going to start "ranking" the Bill of Rights (of which Ammendment 10 is a part)? Should we just ignore some of them?
I'm sure most of you have read "Animal Farm" and recall how their animal "Bill of Rights" gradually got changed as rules were ignored or altered to benefit some individuals over others. It is a classic piece of literature on how dictatorships emerge - slowly and subtley. I am not suggesting that ignoring Ammendment 10 of the Bill of Rights immediately leads to a dicatorship. But, I am suggesting that ignoring part of the Bill of Rights sets a precedent for ignoring other ammendments which dictatorships would find "distasteful"....
Jennifer
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