How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The Constitution contains two guarantees of "due process of law," one in the Fifth Amendment protecting against federal abuses and one in the Fourteenth Amendment protecting against state abuses.
53% : The Second Amendment was their defense: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
53% : Construed correctly, the Second Amendment protects the use and ownership of portable ("bear-able") weapons used for three purposes: (1) To prepare Americans to serve in a federalized militia for the common defense of the country, (2) to enable Americans, both individually and as part of the state militias, to defend themselves against a central government turned tyrannical, and (3) individual self-defense.
44% : In the Miller case, he and his colleagues balanced away the Second Amendment for the sake of a federal license.
41% : During the later 20th century, liberal activist judges stretched the Due Process Clauses to protect invented "rights" such as abortion.
31% : After trying to balance the demands of FDR's "New Deal" with the Constitution, the court successively abandoned the Constitution's limits on federal spending, federal land ownership, and federal economic regulation.

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