No matter what your views are on abortion, the Eighth Amendment in the Constitution is a very cruel, cruel law which benefits no one.
In our Constitution, it is said that we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. In my mind, unless that freedom is total, it is no freedom at all.
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
