Who Needs a New Constitutional Convention?
Provocative quote on VAWA from an article by Gregory Hession in the May 26, 2010 issue of The New American…
Since government does not honor the existing limits in the Constitution, we should not expect it to honor new added limits. The habit of adding laws upon laws to those that already exist has been the pattern of statist lawmakers in the last several decades. It has done immeasurable harm to the law itself, by complicating it beyond all measure or understanding.
For example, when the problem of domestic violence came more to the fore in the 1970s, the government did not simply begin to enforce existing laws against assault. Rather, it began to pass a huge number of new laws, such as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and restraining order laws, that were layered on top of the current legal structure. Assault has not decreased, but the number of laws has increased immeasurably, requiring vast new expenditures, vast new bureaucracies, and vast new government power. Perhaps that was the point in the first place.
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