9 Folks From Rural America
It just seems ironic we now require scholars with decades of post graduate education and law degrees to tell us what the Constitution means
It seems to me we need to have 9 people who live in the same context as the signatories of the Constitution to interpret it. It was written in the common language of everyday living, embracing common understandings of how it would be possible for free people to live together. It was written for the common man, in words even those without education would understand.
It just seems ironic we now require scholars with decades of post graduate education and law degrees to tell us what the Constitution means when what they are doing is finding ways around the clear lines of demarcation between federal and state, state and the people.
My grandfather told me that I should be careful going to university, that I should not let teachers and professors strip away my common sense and replace it with idiocy.
Democrats want to pack the court to turn it into a political body charged with conducting referendums on our values and principles.
That's not the way it should work - ever.
William F. Buckley once said he would "rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
He was right.
Seems we should just find 9 people from rural areas - farmers, ranchers, tradesmen, shopkeepers, laborers - and have them read the Constitution in their own context.
Let people with common sense tell us what it means.
That's what Justice Scalia meant when he said that the Constitution says what it says and doesn't say what it doesn't say.
What we have today is the product of a form of legal deconstructionism infused with politics and hubris - this is what produces the clearly unconstitutional interpretations normal Americans intuitively know are wrong.
"Learned scholars" intent upon bending the Constitution to their will and desires parse every word, splitting paragraphs into sentences, sentences into words, words in to letters and then arguing over punctuation (or lack thereof) while the words "shall make no" and "shall not" remain clear and well understood.
9 folks from flyover country from towns with less than 5000 people. People who get dirt under their fingernails.
That's the way it should be.
It’s past time to put those learned fools in search of honest work.
Or you can choose a reliable source like Johnathan Turley.