So....a sitting Justice on the US Supreme Court, whose sole mission is to uphold the US Constitution, advises Egyptians that in formulating a new constitution they certainly should not look to the USA's for inspiration. She prefers South Africa's or Canada's as a model, being so much more modern after all.
I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary… It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the US constitution — Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights.
Oh yes, because the concept of natural rights certainly has a Sell By date doesn't it? I honestly I can't take much more of this withering assault on everything that made this country what it is. Just how does a civilization recover from having so many enemy agents within its own ranks, and at the highest levels? I don't think it does.
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Moonbattery