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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:12 PM Original message |
Why do the conservatives keep running back to the "Originalist" refrain .. Why do not have to right |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. They're only strict Constitutional Constructionists when it suits them. |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I think that is the key .. They have no "Principled Positions" ...They are for what suits them best. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's a sorta phony argument. If you read about how the Founding generation politicked... |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. A resounding "Yes!" on your last statement |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm rather an originalist |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. b/c they are members of the Federalist Society, been discussed for years |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. they have to have a phrase preceding 'activist judges'. nt |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-22-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. They enjoy rewriting history to suit them -- and then saying that we must be guided by it. |
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