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In reply to the discussion: Are Alito and others really this ignorant about the constitution? [View all]jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)By that, I mean there is "wiggle room" in its interpretation. Some of this is obvious, some less so. There's sure as hell an example to such wiggling in our current fascination with that part of the 2nd amendment which mentions the disposition of firearm ownership.
My point is that the founders always depended on the "wisdom of the majority" to ferret out the meanings of these living inexactitudes over time. The catch is the "wisdom" part. Wisdom requires objectivity mixed with honest conclusions based on real-life observations and experience. Nothing else will do and certainly partisanship never suffices in its stead.
The USSC has too many justices who were/are unqualified. They were approved by people making their choices based solely on partisanship whose majority existed/exists largely due to the constitution's catastrophic departure from democracy embodied in the Electoral college. (Yes, I understand the college only plays in the executive ballot, but I also know electoral coattails are a very real phenomenon.) The constitution will be ever more inexact so long as clearly unqualified and plainly partisan hacks haunt the legislature in a macabre charade of representative government.
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