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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (4811)	5/14/2001 2:40:59 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 6089

Just came across this. Terrific read. What he talks about IS a stunning thing to be watching go on, imo ~ As a result of the Anti-Federalist legal revival, judges and scholars are gradually rewriting American constitutional law to reflect the viewpoint of the losers of the ratification debates. Though there's no doubt that some Anti-Federalists were sophisticated political thinkers, from a historical and constitutional standpoint this interpretation is seriously wrongheaded. As the historian Garry Wills writes in his A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government (1999): "To keep quoting [the Anti-Federalists] as the framers, as authors whose ethos pervades the very Constitution they denounced, is to commit the fundamental interpretive error Jefferson criticized in 1800, when he said that we should ascribe to the Constitution "a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated not those who opposed it." americanprospect.com now back to the roses. really. :)