I would like participants in the thread to keep to our system’s fundamental principles of law, and apply the acknowledged rule of “interpretation” where applicable, as stated by our U.S. Senate which follows:
“In construing the Constitution we are compelled to give it such interpretation as will secure the result which was intended to be accomplished by those who framed it and the people who adopted it. . . . A construction which should give the phrase “a republican form of government” a meaning differing from the sense in which it was understood and employed by the people when they adopted the Constitution, would be as unconstitutional as a departure from the plain and express language of the Constitution in any other particular. This is the rule of interpretation adopted by all commentators on the Constitution, and in all judicial expositions of that instrument. . .” Senate Report No. 21, 42nd Cong. 2d Session 2 (1872)
It would also be helpful if supportive documentation is provided when opinions of law are stated. Remember, we are a nation governed by “the rule of law” as adopted by the people.
“In construing the Constitution we are compelled to give it such interpretation as will secure the result which was intended to be accomplished by those who framed it and the people who adopted it. . . . A construction which should give the phrase “a republican form of government” a meaning differing from the sense in which it was understood and employed by the people when they adopted the Constitution, would be as unconstitutional as a departure from the plain and express language of the Constitution in any other particular. This is the rule of interpretation adopted by all commentators on the Constitution, and in all judicial expositions of that instrument. . .” Senate Report No. 21, 42nd Cong. 2d Session 2 (1872)
It would also be helpful if supportive documentation is provided when opinions of law are stated. Remember, we are a nation governed by “the rule of law” as adopted by the people.
