What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arkansas
If the Bill of Rights were thought to have secured certain rights for the life of the Constitution, are those rights really secure?
Could congress propose amendments abolishing those rights with 3/4's of the states approving?
I have done 2 years of research on the Constitution. It is my opinion from this research that the Constitution cannot be altered in a contrary way. The founding fathers said that by adding the Bill of Rights, those rights were forever secured once they became a part of the Constitution. That would seem to me to imply that the Constitution, once put into effect, is forever... And anything contrary to the Constitution cannot be part of the Constitution.
If this is true... then why, tell me, is the 16th Amendment, contrary to the Constitution approved by the people, subsequently authored by a subordinate authority, considered to be higher than the already highest laws of the land?
If the Bill of Rights were thought to have secured certain rights for the life of the Constitution, are those rights really secure?
Could congress propose amendments abolishing those rights with 3/4's of the states approving?
I have done 2 years of research on the Constitution. It is my opinion from this research that the Constitution cannot be altered in a contrary way. The founding fathers said that by adding the Bill of Rights, those rights were forever secured once they became a part of the Constitution. That would seem to me to imply that the Constitution, once put into effect, is forever... And anything contrary to the Constitution cannot be part of the Constitution.
If this is true... then why, tell me, is the 16th Amendment, contrary to the Constitution approved by the people, subsequently authored by a subordinate authority, considered to be higher than the already highest laws of the land?