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The following dictionary was compiled primarily from the June 10, 1992,
Congressional Record from words used by the Congressmen opposed to describe the
horrors that would result if a Balanced Budget Amendment were put into the
Constitution. However, feel free to use the words compiled in this dictionary to
discourage any amendment, including Term Limits, Limitations on Government
Borrowing and Taxing Powers, Equal Rights Amendment, or any other ideas that
come along which seek to improve this centuries-old document.
SACRED: The Constitution. See also CLASSIC, REVERED,
MAGNIFICENT, EXTRAORDINARY, GREATEST, PRESERVE.
DELICATE: The Checks and Balances of the Constitution.
CRIPPLE: What we do to the system of Checks and Balances
when we amend the Constitution.
PROBLEM: What the Constitution is not.
ALTERNATIVE: What a Constitutional amendment is not. See also
GUARANTEE.
GIMMICK: Any Constitutional amendment. See also PLOY, HOAX, EXCUSE, COVER, FIG-LEAF, CURE-ALL.
EMBARRASS: What an amendment will do to our political
system.
EXACERBATE: What an amendment will do to our problems.
LOWER: What a Constitutional amendment will do to our standard of living.
ANARCHY: What invariably results when the Constitution is
amended. See also CHAOS, CRISIS, DANGEROUS,
DESTROY, DESTABILIZE, DEVASTATE.
LIBERTY: What you lose when you ignore the Constitution.
TESTED: The Constitution. See also DELIVERS.
UNTESTED: Constitutional amendments. See also PROMISES.
RESPECT: What amendment supporters do not have for the
Constitution.
WHAT: The word that should precede "if" in response to
suggestions for Constitutional amendments.
QUESTIONS: What Constitutional amendments leave unanswered.
UNSOUND: The notion that the Constitution needs to be
amended. See also MISTAKE, IRRESPONSIBLE, WRONG.
TAMPER: Amending the Constitution. See also MEDDLE,
TINKER, FIDDLE AND SCRAP.
STRAIT-JACKET: What the Constitution is put into when you amend
it. See also SADDLE.
UNDERMINE: What is done to the Constitution when it is
amended. See also ENDANGER, DAMAGE, SHATTER,
ASSAULT, DECIMATE, TRIVIALIZE, CHEAPEN.
IRREPARABLE: The nature of the damage done by Constitutional
amendments. See also SEVERE.
WHIM: Why people want to amend the Constitution.
HASTY: The speed with which supporters of Constitutional amendments proceed. See also DROP OF A HAT.
HYSTERICAL: Supporters of a Constitutional amendment. See
also QUACK, RECKLESS, FOOLHARDY, UNREALISTIC,
ARROGANT, COWARDLY, LAZY.
CHANCE: What we should not take.
RISK: What every amendment entails. See also GIANT
RIVERBOAT GAMBLE. Do not see BENEFIT.
MEANS: What are not justified by the ends.
DAGGER: What an amendment is relative to the
Constitution.
BAZOOKA: What amending the Constitution is like attacking
an anthill with.
PING-PONG: The game amendment supporters are playing with
the Constitution.
PAPER: What a constitutional amendment looks good on.
CLOUD: What an amendment puts the Constitution under.
GUTS: What supporters of a Constitutional amendment do
not have.
LEADERSHIP: What we need instead of a Constitutional
amendment. See also TOUGH VOTES, COURAGE, RAW COURAGE.
FEAR: The emotion that ought to be inspired by a
Constitutional amendment.
NEVER: The time frame within which a Constitutional
amendment will work.
FOREVER: The length of time the damage from a violation of a Constitutional
right will persist.
WOE: Woe
Suspicion that viewpoint discrimination is afoot is at its zenith when the speech restricted is speech critical of the government," Ridley v. Mass. Bay Transp. Auth., 390 F.3d 65, 86 (1st Cir. 2004)
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