Mark Glennon spoke with Matt Bubala and Andrea Darlas on WLS-AM 890 about the latest double-talk surrounding Amendment 1. Unions claim the amendment is all about workplace safety, but it’s really about an unprecedented expansion of union powers.
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How about an amendment to fix the ridiculous pension perks? Oh, no!! That can’t be messed with!
That’s ultimately arguable. You can make a bet on which side wins because that battle will happen at some point. If Roe vs. Wade is overturned and makes something once thought as constitutionally protected which later is declared unconstitutional, then how safe is any other constitutional “guarantee”? We’ve been allowed by history to believe that constitutionally protected activities were going to be forever considered inviolable. As the old song says “it ain’t necessarily so, it ain’t necessarily so….” When is YOUR favorite “constitutionally protected” right going to be over-turned? “First, they went for the Jews, but I wasn’t a Jew,… Read more »
“Penumbras” and “emanations” are not guarantees. Plain English works better, as in the 1st Amendment.