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Old 06-21-2008
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Re: What is your view on appropirate Judicial Philosphy?
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Originally Posted by Marcus1124 View Post
You have just enough information (distinct from knowledge) to make yourself look exceptionally ignorant.

You don't know the difference between meaning and interpretation. Blackstone is a collection of essays on the MEANING of English Common Law, not a guide for how to go about interpreting legal texts in general. I guarantee if, that if you were to find ANY passing references in Blackstone to general rules of interpretation, you would find that they are merely examples of the canons of construction you are demonstrably (if not willfully) ignorant of.

I am not waisting anymore of my time engaging with somebody too ignorant to even understand the basic concepts being discussed.
I read you to say that you have no idea where James Madison would have obtained knowledge of the canons of interpretation.

I also read you to say that you have no idea what the canons of construction were when James Madison made the statement in question?

I further read you to say that you don't know what Sir William Blackstone said regarding the interpretation of laws.
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I find it appalling that Justice Antonin Scala, in his dissenting opinion in McCreary County v. ACLU, constructed his model of "the relationship between church and state" in America without even considering the actual text of the Constitution. How do incompetents like him get on the U. S. Supreme Court?
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