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What are you contemplating here, a Constitutional Republic? Hasn't that been tried? Please note, these are rhetorical question's. Blackbird.

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[KrisKrinkle]

Offered as hypotheses, not statements of belief:

1. People always define their own liberties--without caveats imposed by others. If their definitions differ from those of the society that surrounds them, they are deemed anti-social, or misfits, or perhaps more properly: outlaws. All else aside, to the extent they can conceal their differences with the society that surrounds them, they live in peace, externally if not internally. To the extent that they cannot conceal their differences, they live in conflict with the society that surrounds them.

2. If it is ok for us to fly a 747 (or perform any other technical task) it is not necessarily ok for anyone else to do so. If it is ok for us to have a constitutional republic, it is not necessarily ok for others to establish one. (I am not so sure establishing a constitutional republic in post-Saddam Iraq is "ok," at least right away. I doubt the people have the cultural undepinnings to sustain one and it will deteriorate into tyranny.


3. Judges should read the Constitution, apply it as written when they can, and interpret it only as necessary and consistent with what is written. I would not want to have to rewrite the Constitution just because the printing press has been superceded by other mechanisms.