[Dog Gone]

You ridicule anyone who dares to suggest that the text itself is the law.

Not at all. You simply ignore the principle that the law must be applied to the facts. That requires legal reasoning.

Sometimes it's obvious. Other times you have to reach back and make a determination of what the law was intended to accomplish.

Much of the law isn't in a text. It isn't in a statute. It's called Common Law, and much of our legal system is based on it.

There may be many reasons to despise lawyers, but you shouldn't base it upon a misunderstanding of what Law actually is.

[Twodees]

The law I mentioned is the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. Sorry I didn't make that clear. My reference wasn't to statutory law or common law. The gyrations performed by so many members of your profession in regard to the Constitution is what arouses my ire and disgust.