Well, the thing is, once the constution is amended, the law is no longer unconstitutional and logical consistency reasserts itself, because the amendment supercedes the original text (which I'm sure we're very glad about, in light of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and even the 17th and 24th).
Which is not to say that these people aren't blazing idiots, and should be shouted down. Trouble is, they have a pseudo-point in that the measure in question passed by a scary margin. Pseudo-point, of course, because if the majority got to decide civil liberties, we'd be lacking the 13th, 14th... etc. But they don't get that. Or they get it all too well and are determined not to have it happen again, depending on which demographic of 'they' you're talking about.
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Date: 2008-05-16 10:56 pm (UTC)Which is not to say that these people aren't blazing idiots, and should be shouted down. Trouble is, they have a pseudo-point in that the measure in question passed by a scary margin. Pseudo-point, of course, because if the majority got to decide civil liberties, we'd be lacking the 13th, 14th... etc. But they don't get that. Or they get it all too well and are determined not to have it happen again, depending on which demographic of 'they' you're talking about.