[wideawake]

On the other hand, Dual Authority—namely in a document AND a “living” authoritative interpreter of it, as defined by Trent...is much more like the vision of liberal Democrats

The Founding Fathers authored a document and they created a continuous interpretative authority - the Supreme Court.

If you would like to argue that the Founding fathers were "liberal Democrats" for creating the Supreme Court, I'm happy to debate the point.

[AnalogReigns]

The Founding Fathers authored a document and they created a continuous interpretative authority - the Supreme Court.

Actually, please read your Constitution and history.

Neither the Founding Fathers nor the Constitution they authored allowed the Supreme Court the exclusive right of judicial review. That was a right unilaterally seized by the court in Marbury v. Madison--and not recognized at the time, nor for many years afterward, by the other two branches of the federal government--nor by the State governments.

My point remains, our original form of government had no final authoritative interpreter...and held only the Constitution as supreme--the ACLU and liberal lawyers everywhere be anathema!