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Show 128 o.ffieiab tener.Uy, criticism whied.. end Iv. would they ,et. oU reioice in the removal of the annual He noted theh unable to .lve this sin,le question withGut Constitutional Amendment, and what good would. Constitut,ionol Amendment fib us 1ft the light ., what we, the courts, the Stetes, and our O'Wft Government hov. done with the 14th AmeNlment? Our Inability to rectify I,imple iniuttlft$ ,ef this type calls for an interpr tetion of our constitutioncd system of the b.ts of real need roth. than on the b.,s of an obsolute prohihitton 11 It ...... we seem resorting to Q ' .. In two exceUeJlt statements Thorn. reveals his view of the Constitution. In the first he reiterates his interpretations 0' but that lew 17 WQ$ Ibi.d. made by him and for him.1S law, that In the man was not maerle for law, second, he shews agein the Vol. 83, pit 1438, (7Jth Congr... 3rd $est., April 11, 1938). 18 Uft.r Newton, Con_cet, and Darwin lOwe got no further then the reeogni,tkm: of ehQftge, pfOltCt$$ive to be sure, QI\C'J far e.nouth away from the blndln, legic.f the past to free U$ from the du.IJing notien that man w. made for the low and also by the lew Emerson tried t& relieve us of this spell, for he tought levery taw and usage. was Q mcM'S expediem .. meet" particu;lor case; thot they are imitable, 011 alterable; We may make • pod; we may make better,' Philosophers $OW his point but the lawyers and Judges wouhJ net. They knew they hod the perfect law ami man cmd· hIs emic needs were to be made to flt it •. The ;udges got themselves beUevin,g, arne"lother thin. th. the ... ••• Constitution prescribed thet agriculture, manufacture, and miniAI were pureJy local, CilffClhs, and this in spite of the foct th. the CeMtitution loid down the rule of free, trade aetween the States, and in spite of the further fact that many Stotes were pro<iuci'ng surplus. in one or atJ of these three bas·iQ economic GettvJ ,ties, and that beth manufacturing and mlAing were org_iaed on Q nation-wide scole. That rule of law WGS net strong. cmough to make over our lndustriClllife, umd something hod to break. And it did break. I tell you, thot •• historical (aet tonight and it will not even attract attention; but 0 year CJ90 when I sold something ho5 I was to give because our rule of law charged wIth attemptinG to d.troyour W05 not based Oft economic facts, Constitution." Ibfa. p. 1436. ... |
