[Gondring]

Who can say with any honesty that Washington, Madison, or Jefferson would not find this practice so hideous and evil that banning it would require not a second thought?

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It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense.

On the other hand, I don't see them writing a sweeping right to privacy as something to be protected (it's not explicit in Madison's Bill of Rights), but then again, perhaps they felt no need to do so, and assumed it was a given (ah, the Federalist/anti-Federalist debates again).

But that's just my opinion.

[SoothingDave]

It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense. On the other hand, I don't see them writing a sweeping right to privacy as something to be protected (it's not explicit in Madison's Bill of Rights), but then again, perhaps they felt no need to do so, and assumed it was a given (ah, the Federalist/anti-Federalist debates again).

The Founding Fathers never envisioned the Federal gov't having authority in mundane state matters like law and order. Homocide is simply not a federal issue.

SD

[Spiff]

It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense.

They never mention murder either and did not make it a federal offense. That doesn't make it any less wrong, just that it is not in the federal jurisdiction and is left to the states to enforce.

[Spiff]

It's quite an insult to think that our Founding Fathers were unaware of a practice that was thousands of years old, especially when you consider Jefferson's Classical scholarship. They were aware of it, yet they did not make it a Federal offense.

They never mention murder either and did not make it a federal offense. That doesn't make it any less wrong, just that it is not in the federal jurisdiction and is left to the states to enforce.