Hope and Change ... the Constitution

...uses my argument about the Civil Rights Act to declare that I am in favor of institutional racism, he or she needs to re-read the Constitution. Blacks in this country were being denied their constitutional rights. The Civil Rights Act had the effect of making illegal a host of laws that were already illegal. The problems should have be addressed by constitutional challenges to those laws. By adding a redundant layer of law on top of existing constitutional rights, this society gave the impression that government had to pass a law in order to give its citizens rights. This legal philosophy has injected into society and the body politic the notion that our rights are not open-ended and limitless unless otherwise proscribed, but narrow...