unintended consequences.
Whenever government tries to fix something, it usually just makes things worse. That is pretty much the case for the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, Health Care, the Middle East, Afghanistan, and so on. When will we learn? But I was doing some research on an essay that I had to turn in for my Civil Liberties class. The class started with the Courts, in particular the Supreme Court, and how it has evolved over the 230 years of the government's existence. I found an article which will have a link at the bottom of my essay, regarding why the Court went so heavy on Judicial Review in the 20th Century. It isn't a surprise to me, as I have long argued against this abomination to the Supreme Court. Except now here is a peer reviewed article explaining the Court's attempt to make up a shortfall created by one of the capstone amendments of the early progressive era. If you know me, you know what it is. The Seventeenth Amendment. For those that don't know, the Seve