From: pixy@yabbs
To: ratshade@yabbs
Subject: re: Clinton administration
Date: Sun Jun 12 22:02:42 1994

In message re: Clinton administration, ratshade said:
>     But what about when the Government blatantly destroys and ignores the 
> Bill of Rights?  (for example: The Weaver incident, the Lawmaster incident 
> , and the Waco massacre; all conducted by our own government, all in 
> violation of Article IV and Article V, and all occurring within the past 
> couple of years.)
> 
That's a good question. I don't really have a strong answer for that one.
Let me give it a whirl. One thing before that---those Articles you
mentioned are really ammendments--but it doesn't change the nature of your
question. 

The constitution doesn't always get upheld. The rules it makes in the
system of checks and balances doesn't gaurantee that the rights and the
correct order of the constitution will be upheld, it just makes it much
more likely. You see, the separate branches of the government don't have
to check each other over matters of constitutionality if it doesn't want
to. Take for instance the old Flag burning law. Both congress and the
president had approved this obvious assault against the provisions of
Amendment I, but if the court had not execised its power, the bill would
still be in place today. The constitution is no real gaurantee of freedom
and justice, but it is something to put in the face of the gowernment when
it acts unjustly.
pixy