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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
dc, that is it exactly. That is why I stress and believe that rights are absolute, no room for 'interpretation'. If people could see them as absolute, then it would be politically easy to remove justices for obviously biased and wrong rulings.
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dk...therein lies the issue.
There is a wide diversity of opinion among Constitutional scholars as to original intent. Many do do not see the rights as absolute..nor do they see the powers of government re, the general welfare clause, as clearly limited to those that are enumerated.
We may have the words of Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson,in the Federalist Papers and other docs, but those words are often contradictory and subject to interpretation. And we know little about the intent of most of the other members of Congress or the state legislatures that ratified the Constitution.