[Non-Sequitur]

See De Tocgueville!

I was looking more for U.S. law, Supreme Court cases, or some sort of precedent to back up your claim and not the opinions of a 19th century Frenchman. De Tocqueville was a lot of things, but authority on Constitutional law isn't one of them.

[bvw]

You ask me for things that I find are not so compatible with what you claim to seek. For example, what guidance shall anyone find in Supreme Court rulings of recent years that are so far astray from original meanings as to be patently ridiculous? De Tocqueville is closer in his understanding to that original meaning.

A long chain of stare decisis ends up abusive to common sense, and moral order -- so we have now in 2008 discovered. Time to reset the basics of law to the Original.