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So let’s say that my wife and I decide to take a trip to New York to visit my family, as we do most years. As we’re driving through Maryland, we get pulled over – not that I was speeding, honest. The polite young trooper asks to see my license, and (law abiding citizen that I am) I hand it over. Whereupon he arrests me because Maryland does not recognize the validity of my Virginia driver’s license. Of course, that could never happen, because the Founding Fathers cleverly included in the… Continue

The Constitution;

If you think it's good right now,

Just wait 'til we're through!"-Washingtonian haiku



At what point, I wonder, did America lose sight of the fact that the role of the Supreme Court is not to interpret the Constitution but to use it as a yardstick to see if laws passed by Congress, the States and localities measure up? The Constitution doesn't need interpretation. It isn't as though those crafty old Founding Fathers hid secret messages in it. When you… Continue