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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 12:55 AM
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32. bosox fan and yankee hater
and #78 by Hamilton is superb.

to whit:

When dealing with pseudo-intellectuals like Scalia who bray on about "original intent" of the Constitution and the Constitutional Convention and proclaim that the Supreme Court does not interpret the Constitution. Try a dose of Alexander Hamilton, in the Federalist Paper No. 78 stating clearly the "original intent" of the Courts and its necessary actions, and it runs counter to Scalia's thrust. If Scalia use the hoary rubric of "original intent" of the Constitution, then so too he should tack to those ideas that laid its philosophical ground work.

From Federalist Paper Number 78.

"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body."

"Ascertain its meaning" means to interpret. There is no other interpretation. Scalia is a gross intellectual fraud or a blatant hypocrite in this matter. And lawyers and journalists out there need to call him on this, reach under his robe and stick this quote right up that little lying bastard's asshole.

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