The Lichfield Group

If you covet fossilized constitutional law and orchestrated Supreme Court decisions, then cast a ballot for presidential candidate John Kerry.

In appointing Supreme Court Justices, Mr. Kerry avowed during the third presidential campaign debate to insist that nominees affirm the Roe v. Wade (1973) abortion decree and button their ears to any overruling. Indeed, the White House aspirant maintained that his High Court appointees would oppose reconsideration of any precedent that recognized a constitutional right, and Kerry amplified: “I’m not going to appoint a judge to the Court who’s going to undo a constitutional right, whether it’s the First Amendment, or the Fifth Amendment, or some other right that’s given under our courts today—under the Constitution. And I believe that the right of choice is a constitutional right. So I don’t intend to see [Roe v. Wade] undone.”

Movement is afoot to make the Constitution pivot on Marxist-like class distinctions when private property is taken for public use. The endeavor should be smartly defeated. The Constitution was framed under an inclusive political philosophy which celebrated the Benjamin Franklin’s axiom that if we do not all hang together, we shall all hang separately.

The government routinely destroys the blighted housing of the poor for urban renewal by wielding the power of eminent domain. The indigent are uprooted and frequently distraught, but are paid “just compensation” as required by the Fifth Amendment.

The nation’s mindless celebration of multiculturalism and denigration of the American creed has reached a new plateau of destructiveness. A bill recently reported by the Senate Appropriations Committee (S.344) would establish a race-based government for Native Hawaiians unconstrained by the restrictions of the United States Constitution. Enactment of the bill would mark the beginning of the end of the United States, akin to the sacking of Rome by Alaric the Great in 406 A.D. A country that wavers in defending its fundamental political and cultural values—like a nation half slave and half free-will not long endure.

S. 344 would erect an independent government for the lineal descendants of Native Hawaiians to honor their asserted “rights as native people to self-determination and self-governance.” Best estimates place their number at over 400,000. Like Hitler’s blood tests for Jews, a miniscule percentage of Native American blood would establish an entitlement to participate in the new racially exclusive domain.