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The Georgetown Center for the Constitution, founded in 2012, offers a variety of programs on constitutional law and theory at Georgetown Law, placing special emphasis on how best to remain faithful to the Constitution's text. Led by Professor Randy Barnett, the Center sponsors lectures, faculty colloquia, conferences, visiting scholars, post-graduate fellowships, and student fellows. All of its activities are designed to engage scholars, students, and even Supreme Court justices in conversations about how to interpret and apply the document that sits under glass less than ten blocks away from Georgetown Law.
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I have some strange questions. While I see the valor of trying to stick to the rules of law & constitution, 1) what do you do when members of the government supposedly sworn to uphold the constitution do not, and 2) when they can write laws preventing us from holding them accountable, how can we force them to obey by the constitution while also still doing so ourselves?
I'm not certain, but I believe Citizens United and mandated vaccines are both unconstitutional, in which case, people IN government are not obeying the rules. And are there or are there not rules in place with which we can prosecute them, or not if this is so?
Because if they ARE acting this way and we HAVE such laws, what's the problem? And if we can't hold them accountable within the restrictions OF the constitution then... then what?