Wildalaska
To assist you in this quest, I am including links to the Historical Document webpage of the United States Congress:
Constitution
Preamble to the Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights (Amend 1-10)
Amendments 11-27
In an effort to afford you a courtesy you have failed to extend to me, I will answer your question:
The courts ruled that slavery was Constitutional until they ruled it wasn't.
The Jim Crow laws were Constitutional until they ruled they weren't.
Literacy tests for voting were Constitutional until they ruled they weren't.
Women being disallowed voting rights was Constitutional until they ruled it wasn't.
The "separate but equal" laws were Constitutional until that pesky Brown vs. Board of Education case.
Histroy is rife with examples of the USSC having found that previous rulings, considered precedent, were in fact unconstitutional.
Then again, they have found things in there that the rest of us have yet to find.
The right to privacy that is mentioned nowhere in the Constitution.
The "separation of church and state" that appears nowhere in the Constitution.
The fact is that this law, barring an ex-felon from having a firearm, is a Bill of Attainder, which is prohibited by the Supreme Law of the Land. This law creates a crime from another crime, or attains the person guilty for life, and the punishment is the loss of a Constitutional right for the rest of their life. The crime thay have committed is the crime of having committed a crime.
What are your thoughts on the Lautenberg Act which, for the first time in the history of the United States, took a Constitutional right for the commission of a misdemeanor? Does it bother you that the Lautenberg Act is an ex post facto law?
Do you feel that the Lautenberg Act will be expanded beyond its original intent to include other lesser crimes such as failure to appear for traffic citations?
There is empirical evidence that this will happen. Two examples of this are the R.I.C.O. Act and the Seizure and Forfeiture laws which have been broadened so far and wide that they pose a threat to American freedom.
First of all, you have merely answered my question with another question which does not answer my question at all. I reiterate my question for your edification in the hope that you will, this time, be able to elucidate an answer.
To assist you in this quest, I am including links to the Historical Document webpage of the United States Congress:
Constitution
Preamble to the Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights (Amend 1-10)
Amendments 11-27
In an effort to afford you a courtesy you have failed to extend to me, I will answer your question:
The courts ruled that slavery was Constitutional until they ruled it wasn't.
The Jim Crow laws were Constitutional until they ruled they weren't.
Literacy tests for voting were Constitutional until they ruled they weren't.
Women being disallowed voting rights was Constitutional until they ruled it wasn't.
The "separate but equal" laws were Constitutional until that pesky Brown vs. Board of Education case.
Histroy is rife with examples of the USSC having found that previous rulings, considered precedent, were in fact unconstitutional.
Then again, they have found things in there that the rest of us have yet to find.
The right to privacy that is mentioned nowhere in the Constitution.
The "separation of church and state" that appears nowhere in the Constitution.
The fact is that this law, barring an ex-felon from having a firearm, is a Bill of Attainder, which is prohibited by the Supreme Law of the Land. This law creates a crime from another crime, or attains the person guilty for life, and the punishment is the loss of a Constitutional right for the rest of their life. The crime thay have committed is the crime of having committed a crime.
What are your thoughts on the Lautenberg Act which, for the first time in the history of the United States, took a Constitutional right for the commission of a misdemeanor? Does it bother you that the Lautenberg Act is an ex post facto law?
Do you feel that the Lautenberg Act will be expanded beyond its original intent to include other lesser crimes such as failure to appear for traffic citations?
There is empirical evidence that this will happen. Two examples of this are the R.I.C.O. Act and the Seizure and Forfeiture laws which have been broadened so far and wide that they pose a threat to American freedom.
