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The Dershow

Who's trying to abolish the constitution?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Dershow. As I have been saying for the last 60 years, the extreme right

0:10.8

and the extreme left are much closer together ideologically than either is to the center

0:18.6

on their side. In other words, the extreme left is much closer to the extreme right than

0:23.8

for example, the extreme left is to liberals like me. I hate the extreme left. I'm appalled by

0:31.2

their intolerance and their unwillingness to accept free speech and do process. And the extreme

0:38.9

right there is almost no resemblance to true conservatives, to people who really want to

0:45.0

limit state power, et cetera. Now, the most recent example that appears in the New York Times

0:53.9

today and a couple of weeks ago, both the extreme right and the extreme left now on a trash

1:01.9

the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution is the longest serving

1:07.0

constitution in the history of humankind. That's a pretty good, pretty good statement to make

1:13.2

about something. It has survived the civil war. It has survived the civil rights movement. It

1:20.8

has survived so many things. It has changed and adapted over time. Is it perfect? Of course not.

1:28.1

I disagree with many of the provisions of the Bill of Rights. If I had to write the Bill of Rights

1:33.6

all over again, I would write the Second Amendment very differently. Right now it's incoherent.

1:38.7

You can't understand what the relationship is between the Second Clause and the First Clause deals

1:46.6

with well-regulated militias and the Second Clause deals with the right to bear arms. Is the

1:52.0

right to bear arms limited by the state's power to regulate its militias? Is it independent right?

1:58.7

Then what do you need the preliminary statement about the reasons for it being in a well-regulated

2:04.9

militia? That's just one example. There are so many examples. Search and seizure.

2:11.0

The Constitution is just unclear when you need a warrant, when you don't need a warrant, whether

2:17.3

the search of the Trump Mar-a-Lago would be consistent with the Fourth Amendment. There are so many

2:23.7

provisions and the Constitution has been amended 27 times. Sometimes in the most fundamental

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