Special Editorial/Flag Flap
Gold, Victor
SPECIAL EDITORIAL FLAG FLAP by Victor Gold AMENDMENT XXXVIII Notwithstanding the provisions of Article II of the amendments hereof regarding the necessity of a well-regulated militia, the sale or...
...Though he entitled his autobiography Out of Step, and though he was indeed frequently out of step with prevailing academic and philosophical fashions, Sidney Hook was never out of step with the enduring values of the Western tradition: with love of sion will send the country up in flames in the next few years, it's worth the wait...
...It is hard to believe—and even harder to accept—that his voice will not be heard again...
...These days, a select group of constitutional experts from Capitol Hill and the Justice Department can print out, within forty-eight hours of an unpopular Supreme Court decision, an amendment to cool the crowd's flaming viscera...
...Though he entitled his autobiography Out of Step, and though he was indeed frequently out of step with prevailing academic and philosophical fashions, Sidney Hook was never out of step with the enduring values of the Western tradition: with love of sion will send the country up in flames in the next few years, it's worth the wait...
...He was a philosopher with the temperament of a fighter, and an academic with the vision of a statesman...
...constitutional amendment enacted June 30, 1997, following a conservative Supreme Court decision restricting gun regulation laws in New York and Massachusetts...
...Like paper currency in Brazil, they were a glut on the market...
...The question serious conservatives have to ask themselves now is whether, given a growing irreverence toward the document shaped by the Founding Fathers, the constitutional inflation endemic to the states won't soon infect our national body politic...
...All very good, but suppose—a not unlikely supposition—that the exhibitionist dolt who started the process at the '84 Republican convention in Dallas, having triggered one constitutional amendment, decides to "desecrate' another banner...
...State constitutions are generally treated with awesome irreverence, with this morning's peeve or passion likely to become Victor Gold is The American Spectator 's national correspondent...
...then freed when it's discovered that what he burned this time around wasn't an official U.S...
...freedom, with pursuit of knowledge and respect for human dignity...
...The Supreme Court's ruling, after all, was narrowly rendered, 5-to-4...
...A one-vote switch is all that's needed, and barring the possibility that the flag-burning deciS idney Hook's death at the S age of 86 reminds us all that not even the bravest heart or the staunchest spirit is indestructible...
...Man's vocation," he said, "should be the use of the arts of intelligence in behalf of human freedom...
...flag but a look-alike banner containing fifty-three stars and fifteen stripes...
...No problem, no sweat...
...Not that Louisianans are that much different from citizens of other jurisdictions...
...is arrested under the new Texas statute following enactment of the twenty-seventh amendment...
...No use...
...It is hard to believe—and even harder to accept—that his voice will not be heard again...
...Within a matter of years the new Louisiana constitution was as cluttered as the old...
...flag but a look-alike banner containing fifty-three stars and fifteen stripes...
...Much, much more, like paper currency in Brazil...
...No use...
...Man's vocation," he said, "should be the use of the arts of intelligence in behalf of human freedom...
...Otherwise, prepare yourself, should the Attorney General's "simple" amendment become the law of the land, for more of the same...
...Otherwise, prepare yourself, should the Attorney General's "simple" amendment become the law of the land, for more of the same...
...Then someone—probably a law clerk who had worked up a hernia trying to lift it—suggested throwing out the old constitution and starting all over again: the equivalent of invalidating old currency and printing new bills...
...A one-vote switch is all that's needed, and barring the possibility that the flag-burning deciS idney Hook's death at the S age of 86 reminds us all that not even the bravest heart or the staunchest spirit is indestructible...
...Why not...
...On any given election day there would be a constitutional referendum on the ballot, adding anywhere from five to fifteen new amendments to the fundamental law of the state...
...On any given election day there would be a constitutional referendum on the ballot, adding anywhere from five to fifteen new amendments to the fundamental law of the state...
...Vice President Dan Quayle July 14, 1989 SIDNEY HOOK, RIP THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1989 9 SPECIAL EDITORIAL FLAG FLAP by Victor Gold AMENDMENT XXXVIII Notwithstanding the provisions of Article II of the amendments hereof regarding the necessity of a well-regulated militia, the sale or commerc...
...U.S...
...True, Madison, Hamilton, and the crowd gathered in Philadelphia 200 years ago spent weeks and months pondering, weighing each word and phrase that would become the law of the land...
...The question serious conservatives have to ask themselves now is whether, given a growing irreverence toward the document shaped by the Founding Fathers, the constitutional inflation endemic to the states won't soon infect our national body politic...
...Vice President Dan Quayle July 14, 1989 SIDNEY HOOK, RIP THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 1989 9 SPECIAL EDITORIAL FLAG FLAP by Victor Gold AMENDMENT XXXVIII Notwithstanding the provisions of Article II of the amendments hereof regarding the necessity of a well-regulated militia, the sale or commercial transfer of firearms and ammunition for private use in the United States and all territories subject to its jurisdiction is hereby prohibited...
...A thirty-eighth amendment, sponsored by a liberal White House after a decision handed down by a conservative Court in the 1990s...
...A man of profound learning and unflagging courage, Sidney Hook was a tireless champion of democracy, human rights, and the life of the mind...
...No problem, no sweat...
...freedom, with pursuit of knowledge and respect for human dignity...
...U.S...
...Too many amendments, not to mention amendments-ofamendments...
...All very good, but suppose—a not unlikely supposition—that the exhibitionist dolt who started the process at the '84 Republican convention in Dallas, having triggered one constitutional amendment, decides to "desecrate' another banner...
...In the flush of recent victories, conservatives would do well to consider that most fundamental principle of all political principles in a democracy: what goes around comes around...
...SPECIAL EDITORIAL FLAG FLAP by Victor Gold AMENDMENT XXXVIII Notwithstanding the provisions of Article II of the amendments hereof regarding the necessity of a well-regulated militia, the sale or commercial transfer of firearms and ammunition for private use in the United States and all territories subject to its jurisdiction is hereby prohibited...
...this afternoon's amendment...
...Then we can suppose—another likely supposition, given the new irreverence toward the Constitution—that it's a simple matter of plugging the loophole with another amendment to ban the physical destruction of simulated symbols...
...Why not...
...But then, you see, they didn't have the benefit of word processors...
...T here is, of course, a simpler 1 way—the old-fashioned way that conservatives who claim to venerate the Founding Fathers might ponder before rushing to the nearest word processor to save the flag...
...He was a philosopher with the temperament of a fighter, and an academic with the vision of a statesman...
...Not that Louisianans are that much different from citizens of other jurisdictions...
...this afternoon's amendment...
...A man of profound learning and unflagging courage, Sidney Hook was a tireless champion of democracy, human rights, and the life of the mind...
...It's all very simple, said the Attorney General on a Sunday talk show...
...Like paper currency in Brazil, they were a glut on the market...
...But it will be remembered as long as men love freedom and respect human dignity...
...Within a matter of years the new Louisiana constitution was as cluttered as the old...
...It's all very simple, said the Attorney General on a Sunday talk show...
...These days, a select group of constitutional experts from Capitol Hill and the Justice Department can print out, within forty-eight hours of an unpopular Supreme Court decision, an amendment to cool the crowd's flaming viscera...
...State constitutions are generally treated with awesome irreverence, with this morning's peeve or passion likely to become Victor Gold is The American Spectator 's national correspondent...
...True, Madison, Hamilton, and the crowd gathered in Philadelphia 200 years ago spent weeks and months pondering, weighing each word and phrase that would become the law of the land...
...Consider the proposed anti-flag burning amendment...
...Much, much more, like paper currency in Brazil...
...then freed when it's discovered that what he burned this time around wasn't an official U.S...
...A thirty-eighth amendment, sponsored by a liberal White House after a decision handed down by a conservative Court in the 1990s...
...The Supreme Court's ruling, after all, was narrowly rendered, 5-to-4...
...By the time I was twenty-one, the Louisiana constitution was as wordy (and as opaque) as an unedited Faulkner manuscript...
...But it will be remembered as long as men love freedom and respect human dignity...
...C oming of political age in Louisiana, I soon learned the value of constitutional amendments...
...constitutional amendment enacted June 30, 1997, following a conservative Supreme Court decision restricting gun regulation laws in New York and Massachusetts...
...In the flush of recent victories, conservatives would do well to consider that most fundamental principle of all political principles in a democracy: what goes around comes around...
...Then we can suppose—another likely supposition, given the new irreverence toward the Constitution—that it's a simple matter of plugging the loophole with another amendment to ban the physical destruction of simulated symbols...
...Consider the proposed anti-flag burning amendment...
...By the time I was twenty-one, the Louisiana constitution was as wordy (and as opaque) as an unedited Faulkner manuscript...
...T here is, of course, a simpler 1 way—the old-fashioned way that conservatives who claim to venerate the Founding Fathers might ponder before rushing to the nearest word processor to save the flag...
...Then someone—probably a law clerk who had worked up a hernia trying to lift it—suggested throwing out the old constitution and starting all over again: the equivalent of invalidating old currency and printing new bills...
...C oming of political age in Louisiana, I soon learned the value of constitutional amendments...
...Too many amendments, not to mention amendments-ofamendments...
...But then, you see, they didn't have the benefit of word processors...
...is arrested under the new Texas statute following enactment of the twenty-seventh amendment...
...Who needs The Federalist Papers when the whole simple add-on can be explained by the Attorney General himself, between commercial bites, on "Meet the Press...
...Who needs The Federalist Papers when the whole simple add-on can be explained by the Attorney General himself, between commercial bites, on "Meet the Press...
Vol. 22 • September 1989 • No. 9
