14 Amendment

[William S. Lear]

On Tuesday, May 18, 1999 at 12:54:50 (-0400) Nathan Newman writes:
>...
>Up until 1936, the words of the Constitution meant there could be no
>national laws regulating wages and workplace conditions.  Magically (i.e.
>following a landslide victory for Roosevelt and sit-in strikes across the
>country), the Supreme Court suddenly "found" that the text actually made
>such laws perfectly Constitutional.
>
>Not a word of text was changed in the Constitution during the 1930s (other
>than repealing Prohibition), yet our whole constitutional system was
>transformed more radically than during any period other than the Civil War.

This of course is Robert Bork's argument in his silly book *The
Tempting of America*.

Bill