PrintNovember 8, 2009
Constitutional Chess
Since the passage of the "Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937" (and the attempted "packing" of the Supreme Court by FDR), the rules of interpreting the Constitution have been rigged to support a progressive ideology. The Constitution has become "a living document." The Constitution means either whatever the Congress wants it to mean or whatever five out of the nine justices sitting on the Court at the time say it means. Imagine that our Constitution is the equivalent of the rules of the game of chess. How would the modern Supreme Court and our progressive Congress conduct a chess tournament? How would they interpret the rules of the game? In making this comparison, I hope to demonstrate the inanity of modern constitutional interpretation and portray the legislative abuses of the Constitution since the late 1930s. Let the games begin.The National Chess Federation runs the tournament. The federation is made up of three separate divisions, each with its...(Read Full Article)
