Adams had the right of it in that original intent is essentially rooted in Blackstone. Any real return to Constitutional interpretation by original intent of the Framers must confront this fact.
Marbury vs. Madison was brought to the Supreme Court as a Blackstone lawsuit. Recent interpretations of Marbury, that is, that the courts may decide on constitutionality of the laws, is simply absurd under Blackstone. Blackstone IS original intent.
The Federalists were correct about the French Revolution, also. The Soviets saw their revolution as firmly rooted in the French revolution. The whole thing was just a killing party. The history is totally clear.
A good book is Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith:
The Republicans, now called the Democrats, were as gullible about their admiration for the French Revolution as their twentieth-centruy descendants were about the Soviet Revolution.
28 posted on 06/22/2005 12:15:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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