With the battle for President Obama’s first nomination of a Supreme Court Justice beginning it seems appropriate to re-post this very important reminder of what the Framers of the U.S. Constitution intended for interpreting the U. S. Constitution. If you really want to understand the debate that will play out over the next number of [...]
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President Obama and Constitutional Government – Part 1
Edwin Meese III, the 75th Attorney General of the United States, writes in an essay entitled, “The Meaning of the Constitution,” that “Part of the reason for the Constitution’s enduring strength is that it is the complement of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration provided the philosophical basis for a government that exercises legitimate power [...]
