Scalia on Constitutional Interpretation

[Drake Tungsten]

[Berzerker]

It means my brackets are cooked now that Syracuse lost and Kansas is going down in flames...or are they?

Intentional FOUL!!!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
What does "T*********B" mean? I'm horrible with acronyms...

Pretty obvious really.

[Berzerker]

Kansas

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Kansas

[Sava]

I hope Kansas loses, bill self is a tool...

go Illini

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Odin
A constitution must be a "living document" if it wants to survive, If it is not it will become obsolete as society changes. The flexibiliy given by the Interstate Commerce clause, the Elastic clause, and the 9th (Roe v. Wade) and 10th Amendments make the Constitution flexible enough to survive for over 200 years.

it is a living document, get 75% of the country to agree on something and amend the constitution. or call a constitutional convention,etc but the point is, you need more then 5 people to agree to change a document that effects 300 million.

[Berzerker]

Wouldn't even need %75, just %50 + in 3/4s of the state legislatures. But Scalia does what he condemns, he joins with at least 4 other members of the court to re-write the Constitution.

[Drake Tungsten]

At least he condemns it...

[Berzerker]

Hypocrisy is an indicator of intellectual weakness, not intelligence... What does it matter if he condemns it if he does it too?

[Drake Tungsten]

Hypocrisy is an indicator of intellectual weakness, not intelligence...

I disagree. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Hypocrisy is an indicator of intellectual weakness, not intelligence...

I disagree. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

[TCO]

Berz is probably all hung up about a decision or two that did not go his way, while the vast majority of the man's decisions, plus his written decisions, plus his public statements all support a non-activist viewpoint.

[TCO]

I bet Berz is still mad about that one spanking for something his sister did...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten


I disagree. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

That should be of course:

" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. "

'Essays'

Ralph Waldo Emerson