Re: Using ad serving software for censoring news stories

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 8/30/06, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote:
> Maybe you're being metaphorical, but the first amendments weren't
> passed, or even formally proposed, until after the constitution was
> adopted and put into operation. They couldn't have been since the
> process for passing amendments is part of the constitution. And there
> were actually 12 proposed. One of them wasn't passed until 1992 (that
> one says that no congressional pay raise can take effect until after an
> election has taken place. Another one, having to do with the number of
> representatives in the House changing with shifts in population, was
> never adopted.

While technically true, in the political realm, not so. In order to
get buy-in from the anti-federalists there was little doubt that these
amendments (while opposed by the federalists) would be passed. Because
the Constitution did have requirements for how it may be amended, this
took time. But then again, the Constitution wasn't ratified over night
- I think it took over a year, if memory serves (and it might well
have been much longer).
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