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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Our system depends on moral people writing the laws and moral judges ruling on the Constitutionality of those laws. Your proposed law would be virtually unenforceable because the corruption that exists would always side in favor of the corruption. To put it another way - criminals do not care about existing laws so why would they care about any NEW law? Any new law would only be adhered to by moral people that where already not inclined to violate the Constitution. Case in point - it's already illegal to walk into an elementary school and shoot kids - Congress passes new law that makes it harder for law abiding citizens to legally obtain firearms and none of those new hurdles would have prevented the school shooting that was used as the excuse to pass the new law.