Putting the Court in a position to pronounce what the Constitution - TopicsExpress



          

Putting the Court in a position to pronounce what the Constitution meant was not what the Founders intended. They wanted the Court to apply the Constitution, not interpret or twist its meaning. The Founders wanted the justices to be pro-Constitution, not anti. As president, Jefferson wrote: “On every question of construction, [let us] carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed. Read more in the “The Naked Socialist” by Paul B. Skousen amazon/dp/B0089H9RT6
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:05:37 +0000

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