Our Constitutional Moment
James Taranto writes at the Wall Street Journal: “Why? Because, he says, ‘America is in what I call a constitutional moment.’ Mr. Obama’s efforts to expand government power raise basic questions about the constitutional limits of that power. ‘The enumerated-powers argument is enormous,’ Mr. Lipsky says. ‘It’s just enormous, the ground that is open for contest here. . . . Right now, we’re at a moment where we’re not going to be able to turn to either the Congress or the executive branch for help on this.’ He believes ‘the only defense now, the only tool we have now, is the Constitution. That’s why I call it a constitutional moment, as opposed to a political moment.’ That makes it an auspicious moment for Mr. Lipsky’s new book, ‘The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide‘. . . “