Donald Trump Has Broken the Constitution
The President-Elect is a figure out of authoritarian politics, not the American tradition
Donald Trump ran on a platform of relentless, thoroughgoing rejection of the Constitution itself, and its underlying principle of democratic self-government and individual rights. True, he never endorsed quartering of troops in private homes in time of peace, but aside from that there is hardly a provision of the Bill of Rights or later amendments he did not explicitly promise to override,
- from First Amendment freedom of the press and of religion to
- Fourth Amendment freedom from “unreasonable searches and seizures” to
- Sixth Amendment right to counsel to
- Fourteenth Amendment birthright citizenship and Equal Protection and
- Fifteenth Amendment voting rights.