What does being “unique” have to do with it? I don’t give a rip if it is, still doesn’t mean I should have to buy something I don’t want. An energy with bull piss in it is unique and I may or may not want to buy it.
Your brilliant, incisive legal analysis proves once again why 99 times out of a hundred I would much rather listen to regular folks concerning law and constitutionality than any lawyer.
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Constitution (5th ed.) 345, SS 451."Every word employed in the Constitution is to be expounded in its plain, obvious, and common sense, unless the context furnishes some ground to control, qualify, or enlarge it. Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, rounded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them, the people adopt them, the people must be supposed to read them, with the help of common-sense, and cannot be presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning or any extraordinary gloss."
I may sound like a simpleton and crude but I just don’t like all the attempted displays of showcasing one’s intelligence.
I am currently taking the online constitution course offered by Hillsdale college. I’m learning a lot about the founders intent among other things. The language and logic they applied, while eloquent and intellectually superior to ours was for their time meant to be quite simple. The way they saw the role of government was to do 3 things...1. Provide a national defense. 2. Regulate commerce only insofar as to allow the third thing which was to ensure everyone the means to participate in commerce unobstructed by others. In other words, enumerated powers and everything else left to the states by way of individuals. Simple.
All the justice system and the legislative branch does now is complicate things and argue over what the definition of “is” is.
All this bloviating over words is annoying. And I don’t understand why the Supremes need until June to make a ruling. So they can sit around and impress each other and themselves with their own arguments all day long? I mean really. 4 of them are already in the bag for Obamacare, no surprise there. And all of them probably mostly had their minds made up before arguments were even over. Just get on with it already and either put the nail in our coffin or let us fix this sh!t.