If the U.S. Constitution is to mean anything at all it must be defined by those who have empowered the same to secure their rights.
As individually as possible, given that groups are not the subject of protection for republican governments but rather all the individual members of groups.
>If the U.S. Constitution is to mean anything at all it must be defined by those who have empowered the same to secure their rights.
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>As individually as possible, given that groups are not the subject of protection for republican governments but rather all the individual members of groups.
This is the whole point; as things stand the “normal citizen” has ceded his understanding of [and reasoning upon] the Constitution. ‘Liberty’ cannot be sustained in that environment because the Constitution is the very element that defines the power/authority of the government.
“It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.” — Blaise Pascal [Pensées]