Honestly, I think you are a little too invested in this issue, to the point that its so important to you for me to admit that I am wrong and that I should agree with you. I do feel as though I’m being beat over the head by someone who will not be satisfied until I bend to his opinions. Notice the word I keep using......OPINION. These are my opinions, and I still have the opinion I have after reading all of your posts and links and rants from external bloviators. In the end, its just my opinion......why do you care?
I don’t.
No one, much less me, is asking you to bend to my opinions. I did ask you if you deny that you repeatedly stated “there was no room for argument” on this issue; that is quite different from pressuring you to agree with any point and you have not responded to that.
That’s fine. It was just a suggestion for a way you might evaluate your analysis.
All I suggested was that it was uninformed to declare that your opinion was conclusive, indeed, that there was “no room for argument.” And, even then, the only reason I commented was because such posts only add to the huge mountain of constitutional ignorance out there.
I simply wanted to point out that use of a term in a constitutional provision is NOT the same as that term being defined, and it’s not helpful to proceed as if it is.
That is all.