That’s why I used Buckley’s definition, as a way of establishing a kind of commonly agreed upon starting point and then taking it from there. ‘Loyalty to the Constitution’ is fine, but the wording is open to a great deal of potentially conflicting interpretation. You know what you mean, and I’m pretty sure I know what you mean, but someone else could have an entirely different idea about what constitutes loyalty to the Constitution and still be equally correct, logically speaking. Simplicity is comforting and helps when getting one’s head around complex abstractions, but does little to further an argument or clarify meaning.
that is why I wrote #139, should have pinged you.
RF,
The Constitution means what the Founders thought it meant, not what the modern reader thinks. So look to the Founders. If we do that, there is very little that can be honestly disagreed upon.