BOOK CLUB OCTOBER: "Radicals in Robes"

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“Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America”
by Cass R. Sunstein

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465083269/qid=1127333449/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-5792740-7358366?v=glance&s=books


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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=209x2604

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1. Has anyone read this book? If so, any comments?

kick

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2. Sort of preaching to the choir here with this book.

I advocate judicial grammaticalism, i.e. decisions based on
the plain, unvarnished English meaning of the Constitution.
For example when it says "no law" it means zero, none, nada.

I think "Original Intent" is poppycock, we do not have access
to the original intent of the signers, other than in their
writings, and the Constitution must be taken to speak for all
of them as their "Original Intent" in producing it, everything
else is both secondary and hearsay. The text is the message.
Make sense of it if you can, but leave Thomas Jefferson's internal
mental state out of it.