[inquest]

This is a fun essay and worthwhile to read for understanding ... yet Scalia fails at Schiavo. The Court, even bound by strict originalist Constructionism could have rescued her. No law set by man is greater than the basics of the Creator's Natural Law -- no State can legalize murder.

Except it's not the job of the court to uphold the Creator's Natural Law. Its job is to uphold the Constitution.

[bvw]

We disgree. Scalia dances in a bit to the mud in the middle of his essay on this too. No laws work long term in more than insane degree except those that hew to the Creator's Natural Laws as Judges, Legislators (and Juries) discover that law. (sidenotation: Juries are the part of common law the Justice S., and Author S., both seem to have left out of their intellectual loops.)

Yet Scalia and you both turn away from the heavens and tour the mud then so as to declare (ridiculously) that a Constitutionalist can ignore the very and most fundamental issues of Natural Law due to scope. That was not the intent of the Founders, certainly not in their time.