Jane is a proud Constitutional "Originalist". More specifically, a "Textualist", or an originalist who gives primary weight to the text and structure of the Constitution and is highly skeptical of the ability of judges to determine collective intent.
Rudy Giuliani is a toad on so many levels, but his proclivity for arrogance, personal drama and at least three clinical speech impediments are not my main complaint. Not today, anyway. Today it is his ability to read things that are not written and ignore things that clearly are, irrespective of the moral justifications for either.
Nowhere in my tattered personal pocket Constitution do I find an express written privacy guarantee in Section I of the 14th Amendment. I see the word "liberty", but no word "privacy". Rudy has read the same document and insisted again this week that abortion on demand is a "Constitutional right" as part of this elusive privacy guarantee that only he, hippy-dippy stoners in SoHo and sadly more and more lapsed Republicans read between the lines of clearly written text.
But then again, he is altogether blind to words that are spelled out in the Second Amendment, so what should a Conservative Textualist expect?
Rather than put his full shoulder to the wheel of justice against the true criminals in New York City, for the sake of political expedience, he traded away some of the Constitutionally guaranteed rights of law abiding citizens in order to fill his karmic piggy bank with goodwill from the Liberal heart of Gotham.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
How can he swear to uphold and defend a document that he clearly does not understand? And with the Dems flapping about the Equal Rights Amendment. Again.
Somebody pass Rudy a dictionary if he thinks the word "shall" is a synonym for the very different word, "should". But in the interest of fairness, let's read another "arcane" document in Rudese:
"Thou Should Not Commit Adultery Unless She's Really Hot And You Kinda Wanna."
The Natural Law on which our Constitution is originally based came straight from Mount Sinai. It is written in stone. It is not up for creative interpretation by easy-listening revisionists. Unless of course you are a Catholic politician with three wives and prefer to interpret the word "Commandments" as the word "Suggestions".
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Captain Ed says "Game Over".
Back when the earth was still cooling I had a professor who swore that there was a "wall of seperation" clause and that "militia" did not mean individuals. You won't believe this, but I kid you not, his real name was Professor Pinkley. Yes, he was a socialist.
Maybe his Rudness had the same prof.
Posted by: mRed | April 05, 2007 at 09:41 AM
Check out an article I wrote titled, “Reviving the Constitution in Exile.” It is about the importance of Limited Government.
http://copiousdissent.blogspot.com/2007/06/reviving-constitution-in-exile.html
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Posted by: Devil's Advocate | June 08, 2007 at 05:19 PM