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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1503)	1/18/2001 6:28:59 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You have to remember that slavery was "interpreted" to be legal under this very same Constitution. Internment of Japanese. Syphilis tests on blacks. Jim Crow and the eradication of Native Americans. Discrimination against Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, women and just about anyone else, "who was different" - all Constitutional at one time or another. Laws (as bodies of words) have ALWAYS been subject to interpretation. It will never stop.

To: TimF who wrote (1503)	1/18/2001 6:31:41 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The actual meaning of the Constitution was intended to apply to white landowning men- women, minorities, children- were NOT considered to have any rights. When you read: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. You would THINK that meant all people? Wouldn't you? But it didn't. Words words words. They aren't worth the paper they are written on without men to interpret them and enforce them. So it has always been, so it will always be.