the power to enforce the bill of rights as it stands in the constitution today. half of that accent and no more he points out. he said gentleman the force of the provisions of the bill of rights the citizens of the united states shall be entitled to all privilege immunities citizens of the nine states into several states. that no person, known to be deprived of life, liberty property without due process of law but they say we are opposed to its enforcement by act of congress under an amended constitution as proposed. that is the sum and substance of all the argument we have heard on the subject. what are the gentleman opposed to the enforcement of the bill of rights as proposed? it would interfere with the rights of the states. who ever before heard any state had reserve to itself the rights under the constitution of the united states to withhold from any citizen of the united states within its limits, under any pretext, what ever put any pretext or privilege of the
the power to enforce the bill of rights as it stands in the constitution today. half of that accent and no more he points out. he said gentleman the force of the provisions of the bill of rights the citizens of the united states shall be entitled to all privilege immunities citizens of the nine states into several states. that no person, known to be deprived of life, liberty property without due process of law but they say we are opposed to its enforcement by act of congress under an amended constitution as proposed. that is the sum and substance of all the argument we have heard on the subject. what are the gentleman opposed to the enforcement of the bill of rights as proposed? it would interfere with the rights of the states. who ever before heard any state had reserve to itself the rights under the constitution of the united states to withhold from any citizen of the united states within its limits, under any pretext, what ever put any pretext or privilege of the
the power to enforce the bill of rights as it stands in the constitution today. half of that accent and no more he points out. he said gentleman the force of the provisions of the bill of rights the citizens of the united states shall be entitled to all privilege immunities citizens of the nine states into several states. that no person, known to be deprived of life, liberty property without due process of law but they say we are opposed to its enforcement by act of congress under an amended constitution as proposed. that is the sum and substance of all the argument we have heard on the subject. what are the gentleman opposed to the enforcement of the bill of rights as proposed? it would interfere with the rights of the states. who ever before heard any state had reserve to itself the rights under the constitution of the united states to withhold from any citizen of the united states within its limits, under any pretext, what ever put any pretext or privilege of the
not get any more hypocritical than that, and the senate did the right thing by the constitution today. not because of partisan politics or anything else, it s the constitution, it cannot withstand this kind of abuse by the house republicans, nor should it, and chuck schumer, and the senate democrats absolutely did the right thing because this impeachment should never be legitimized. but it is one of the only things that the house of representatives has actually voted on. they ve done nothing on aid to israel or ukraine. they passed it after two attempts, let s not forget, they failed the first time and then just by one vote, the second time but i m optimistic, lawrence, we now have in front of us, effectively the senate border security bill or the
court is gonna take up next term in the case. essentially, although there s agreement about the individual rights core of the amendment, there is disagreement about the application of this new history and tradition test, lower court judges are all over the place about how to think about weapons the founders could not have anticipated, assault weapons, ak-47s, and the supreme court is really gonna have to sort this out. if they don t, a lot of gun regulations may be open to question. akhil, most, about whether we agree or disagree on various closet in the constitution, are not prepared to throw it out. with the exception of donald trump that time that he said so. in 2020, jeff wrote an article for the atlantic called, what if we wrote the constitution today? so, i want to ask you, because i know you to talk a lot, i want to ask you, akhil, what would a modern constitution look like? how would you even arrive at that process? so, i love the fact that you talked about not just the