Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
> As it should be, but states do it for a variety of reasons. The easiest
> to understand is that individual laws can not contradict the
> constitution, but amendments to it can. So, should the government want
> to push through a law that they know would violate certain rights set
> out in the constitution, and have voting power to get it done, an
> amendment is the better way to go.

  Doesn't that make the whole point of having a constitution kind of moot?

  "We don't like this part of the constitution. No problem, we'll just add
an amendment which changes it." So what's the point in having a constitution
in the first place?

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