To: DPB101
DPB101 wrote:
Why not take the anti-Federalist position? Roger Sherman and Patrick Henry had it right: the constitution is the problem.
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Tell me what ~you~ see as the 'problem', in your own words.
Henry was past his prime, imo, when he wrote that bit. I fail to see his point.
37 posted on
06/16/2003 9:52:48 PM PDT by
tpaine
(Really, I'm trying to be a 'decent human being', but me flesh is weak.)
To: tpaine
Henry was past his prime, imo, when he wrote that bit. I fail to see his point.Henry's point was everything would become a Federal case and we would be ruled by judges, that there was no protection against the constitution meaning whatever judges say it means.
He was correct. Past his prime or not when he predicted what would happen.
40 posted on
06/16/2003 9:59:52 PM PDT by
DPB101
(The second Speaker of the House of Representatives was in the oil business.)
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