jttmab, thanks for the
kind words, and I do take all compliments seriously, but understanding the constitution requires no great amount of work or special talent. And it certainly doesn't take any "interpretation" to divine the "intent of the framers."
You see, the framers were the best of their day, and they knew how to say exactly what they meant. So all one needs, in order to know what they said, is an ordinary ability to use American-English properly and, in some instances, a rudimentary knowledge of word usage at that time.
The trouble that 200 years of Supreme Court Justices have, is not that they do not know these facts, but that most of them fall prey to that age-old problem....ego. Not one in a hundred of these Justices can carry the jockstrap of the Framers, yet nearly all of them want to change the brilliant system the framers set up. A disgraceful display, to be sure, but wholly expected in the ego-filled world of men.
"It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such."
Regards, Moose |
