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The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
The Constitution of the United States
Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
JUSTICE: The upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law.
justice - definition of justice by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
LIBERTY:
a. The condition of being free from restriction or control.
b. The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing.
liberty - definition of liberty by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
DISCRIMINATION - unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice. Prejudicial and therefore unequal treatment of a group of persons
discrimination: West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article) from Answers.com
Unless it's unclear, "discrimination" is a form of "restriction" and "control" and it's not fair which means there is no Justice in "discrimination" and certainly no "liberty". Confederates were able to get around this by declaring blacks were NOT human. That left only white, Confederate men as human. Women obviously weren't one of the "people".
This is why you fail at these things. You are just as bad as Scalia. Instead of asking something like "Well how come he seems to focus on these sorts of issues?"...you have to bend over backwards to make some elaborate point.
You could have also just pointed out the difference between what's explicit in the Constitution and implicit. Always makes for an interesting conversation.
Instead you annoy the crap out of people with this sort of stuff.
Scalia is a "Textualist" that frequently trips himself up. You'd know that if you followed the news a bit more instead of focusing on the flashy.
Justice and Liberty. "Bend over backwards" and "flashy". Funny, to me it seems "obvious".