[steve-b]

NEWS FLASH: Courts have [drum roll] pulled legal doctrine out of their nether orifices rather than obey the original intent of the Constitution.

I'm sure this will come as a shocking surprise to everybody here.

And he needs a reading lesson

Today's reading lesson:

a·mend·ment (&-m&nt-m&nt) -- a: the process of amending by parliamentary or constitutional procedure b: an alteration proposed or effected by this process

[robertpaulsen]

Maybe you can point out where the 14th a·mend·ment (&-m&nt-m&nt) changes "Congress" to "Congress and the States" in the 1st a·mend·ment (&-m&nt-m&nt).