http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/02/why-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%98we-the-people%e2%80%99-loses-appeal%e2%80%9d-misses-the-point/ Smart Conversation about the Constitution Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/02/why-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%98we-the-people%e2%80%99-loses-appeal%e2%80%9d-misses-the-point/#comment-19781 AEI Citizenship – Is the Constitution losing appeal? Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:57:18 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=12456#comment-19781 [...] at the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Daily, Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar responds: “the key point–the real headline utterly [...]

]]> http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/02/why-%e2%80%9c%e2%80%98we-the-people%e2%80%99-loses-appeal%e2%80%9d-misses-the-point/#comment-19770 This week and the Constitution: Gay marriage, relevance and killer whales | Constitution Daily Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:06:06 +0000 http://blog-dev.constitutioncenter.org/?p=12456#comment-19770 [...] In comments on a trip to Egypt last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remarked, “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” Her comments raised some eyebrows, to say the least, but they were also echoed in an article in the Sunday New York Times, in which columnist Adam Liptak argued that the Constitution’s influence on other countries’ government charters is declining, relying primarily on the conclusions of a recent study. There are some interesting responses to this claim in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, and Constitution Daily. [...]

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