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Re: John Leo's opinion of "The West Wing"
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Fri, 4 Oct 2002 22:15:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> Jefferson
Y'know, let's get away from Jefferson. If we are going to discuss
legislative intent in the Constitution we can refer to the Federalist Papers
and the many debates that were had state by state. Some of the quotes I
provided last time were from those debates and precisely on point in
discussing the meaning of the 2nd Amendment. It's really not quite the tea
leaf reading I think you are trying to make it out to be. But anyway...
> How this applies to "real-world" writings is less clear to me. I'm inclined
> to say that it's largely the same...
What you mean is "legal" writing. And if need be, attempts are made at
clarification by actually including definitions or helpful references. In
the Federal Codes you will find significant footnotes on intent and the
precise problem the the law is intended to address, esp. in more recent years.
What can one do? You are expected to know and follow the law, they try to
spell it out in detail.
> Worrisome? Sometimes. Inevitable? Just about! At some point the
> language of the Constitution will be as irrelevant to the current common
> lexicon as the language of the Magna Carta is to us. Then what?
Actually, I don't find Magna Carta that irrelevant.
As to "then what?"
As you see -- increasing entropy.
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) I've mentioned before, and I'm happy to reiterate here, that you've done vastly more reading on the subject than I, and I am therefore given to accept much of what you interpret the 2nd amendment to say. But if the issue as cut-and-dried as (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Heehee. I should have picked a more hypothetical example! See, my biggest problem is that I agree with you, but something's not sitting right with me about it. Not with the right itself, which I honestly think is pretty straightforward, but (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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