Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum is no conservative. I thought Conservatives have a constructionist view of the Constitution. In the Iowa debate, Santorum had this to say:

No! Our country is based on moral laws, ladies and gentleman. There are things the states can’t do. Abraham Lincoln said “the states do not have the right to do wrong.” I respect the Tenth Amendment, but we are a nation that has values. We are a nation that was built on a moral enterprise. And states don’t have the right to tramp over those because of the Tenth Amendment.

For those who don’t know, the Tenth Amendment states that “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” How do you get around that? The constitution represents a legally binding contract between the people of these United States and the federal government. The wording of the tenth amendment is unequivocal, the federal government does not have the right to do other than the 17 things listed in the constitution, or anything that be added in the future.

What I want to know is this: what happens when the federal government decides that a woman’s right to murder, or homosexual marriage is one of our “national values” (which actually supersede the rule of Law)? Let me know what you think…


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