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Show La Toilette's Revolutionary Amendment Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin Is boldly advocating what In effect would be a revolution In the constitutional government of the United Unit-ed States. He proposes a constitutional constitu-tional amendment which would de,ny the power of the courts to declare federal fed-eral statutes unconstitutional, and would authorize congress to nullify any Supreme court decision on unconstitutionality uncon-stitutionality of a statute by the simple method of re-enacting the law In question. ques-tion. If adopted it would make the legislative whim of any temporary majority of erratic politicians In congress con-gress superior to the Constitution of the United States. The United States Is a republic ; the rights and liberties of Its citizens, the Institutions which make, administer and enforce Its laws, stand upon a written constitution, it Is basic to our social, political and economic superstructure. It may be altered by repeal or amendment upon the deliberate action ol the people expressed through a two-thirds vote at the states composing the ' Union. But security of the rights and liberties It guarantees, stability of the Institutions It creates and defines, depend upon' its freedom from the influence of momentary impulse or class and partisan interpretation. |