Ok, I have been looking for a way to prevent a lot of the feigning of the Constitution in this country and it got me wondering. If someone passes a a law, in direct contradiction to the Constitution, is it legal? In that, if we made it a Federal Crime to attempt to pass a law contradictory to the US Constitution, could this all be avoided in the future? Assuming the corruption gets cleaned up.
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Unfortunately, the constitution is a wreck. If a law is contradictory to the constitution, that is subject to the Supreme Court's interpretation of the constitution, which could be based on precedent, bias, activism, or even a whim. Technically, we're not even supposed to have a standing army for more than 2 years; but here we are because of interpretation.
Unfortunately our system seems like a good one, it's good against outside threats and even against some degree of inside negligence, but the problem is that it isn't at all good against wide-scale, intentional subversion from the inside.
So yeah, ideally it would be illegal to pass such laws (and it is probably technically illegal in a sense), but the problem is you're playing inside of a totally captured and controlled system. It doesn't matter what's illegal right now. It matters what those interested parties can get away with.