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In the words of the great Thomas Sowell, it is a clash of visions. The constrained vision vs. the unconstrained vision of "the annointed."
1 posted on 07/03/2022 7:36:27 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

Liberals, because they won’t accept the idea that God saved us, they must present their works as a substitute. So, they believe if they can create a saved world, they can present themselves before God for what they have done.

I’m coming around to the idea that when Christ said, “I never knew you.” to those who claim to have fed the poor and hungry, they may not have been lying. It’s just that operated under a spirit of self-salvation.


2 posted on 07/03/2022 7:41:57 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Are vegetarian real vegetarian burgers or just fake meat?)
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The constitution has a way to amend it, they just don’t like it....too difficult


3 posted on 07/03/2022 7:53:30 PM PDT by dila813
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To: DeweyCA

Clashes of visions alway end up being solved in the same way. Read and heed my tagline.


4 posted on 07/03/2022 8:04:56 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: DeweyCA; All
Version 2 of the amendable Constitution is probably best understood as the minority subverting the will of the majority as enumerated in the Constitution.

Insights welcome.

Also, Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.

Again, insights welcome.

5 posted on 07/03/2022 8:04:58 PM PDT by Amendment10 ( )
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To: DeweyCA

It seems to me to be a clash between honest understanding and interpretation of what the Constitution actually says, and a squirrel-y dishonest one in which it says what some would prefer it said.


6 posted on 07/03/2022 8:07:09 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DeweyCA

SUMMARY: The rule of law vs the rule of men


7 posted on 07/03/2022 8:10:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: DeweyCA

There Are Two Fundamentally Irreconcilable Constitutional Visions

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1 Plain Meaning Truth

2 Commie Dog Faced living breathing leg humping lie.


8 posted on 07/03/2022 8:11:04 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: DeweyCA

I would tighten that up to- the unconstrained vision of arbitrary power v the vision of zero arbitrary power.


9 posted on 07/03/2022 8:14:04 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: DeweyCA

the Constitution is an impediment to their socialist paradise


16 posted on 07/03/2022 8:33:31 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: DeweyCA

The second one is not a “Constitutional” vision at all.


18 posted on 07/03/2022 8:41:40 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: DeweyCA

Split it up. That won’t stop war from coming, but it will slow it down some. Time to split it up. It’s all falling apart anyway.


19 posted on 07/03/2022 8:42:28 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: DeweyCA

We need a divorce 🤪


21 posted on 07/03/2022 8:54:21 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: DeweyCA

Constitution bookmark.


22 posted on 07/03/2022 9:01:28 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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JAMBOG.

There Are Two Fundamentally Irreconcilable Constitutional Visions

07/02/2022 6:54:30 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 51 replies
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 1 Jul, 2022 | Francis Menton

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4075583/posts


23 posted on 07/03/2022 9:45:55 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Constitutional interpretation is more complex than the one way or the other choice that the article suggests.

Scalia and Thomas, for example, although both staunch originalists differed at times. In the latter phase of Scalia's tenure he sometimes described himself as a "textualist" in preference to the term originalist due to the risks of getting lost in the weeds of often poorly documented original intent. As Justice Hugo Black emphasized in an earlier era, the text of the Constitution itself is the best and mot powerful guide to what the Framers intended.

Scalia saw constitutional precedents of long tenure of 75 years or more as having acquired a reliance interest that made them near untouchable because they had become part of the country's understanding of the Constitution. Thomas though would accord no value to long tenure and would overturn precedents if they were shown to be wrong.

Notably, the "living document" theory of the Constitution suffers from an inherent contradiction in that, just as changes in tide and current can reshape a coastline, so also is a living Constitution subject to reinterpretation that erodes or abandons old precedents. This reduces all liberal victories to being little more than jottings on sand when a determined conservative majority is installed on the Supreme Court.

Another dimension of Constitutional law often missed by the public is that some Supreme Court decisions are bad because they are badly reasoned or set out unsound or unworkable rules of decision for specific cases. Should the Court establish a hard and fast rule with no exceptions? Or if there should be exceptions, should they be few or many? Should there be a balancing test, or a bright line?

In practice, out of a sense of restraint, the Court usually leaves as much as it can to be elaborated in later cases so that experience may help to illuminate those kinds of issues and build support for the Court's approach.

Some justices are lunkheads about those sorts of issues, or are bad writers, are unpleasant personalities, are shady operators, or just seem lost as to how the Supreme Court works in concept and in practice. Those with great reputations in their day may fade over time or even be exposed as unethical after they are dead.

As much as the Left hates Justice Thomas, they seem to be recognizing just how influential he has become, both intellectually and in the respect and liking that he enjoys with his colleagues. Justice Thomas has become the dominant Justice on the Supreme Court. The Republic may yet be saved.

24 posted on 07/03/2022 9:51:44 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: DeweyCA

Great article


25 posted on 07/03/2022 11:59:06 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: DeweyCA

READ LATER.


27 posted on 07/04/2022 5:16:13 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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The leftists on SCOTUS have all clearly stated:

“Our seat is a political one, and our arguments are purely political. The Law, the Constitution, mean nothing to us.”


28 posted on 07/04/2022 5:39:18 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: DeweyCA

The dissenting comments are legislative arguments, not judicial arguments.

Pretty cut and dried.


29 posted on 07/04/2022 5:56:24 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: DeweyCA

Two (or more) groups can have different opinions. But, not on facts. Or truth. There is no “your truth”, there is simply truth/fact.

If one side of an argument bases its opinions on a falsehood, make no compromises with them. They are WRONG!


31 posted on 07/04/2022 6:58:33 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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