This is a return to Locke's primary and secondary qualities distinction, which I think is ultimately arbitrary. Your knowledge of mass, for example, w...
This doesn't resolve the result of Cartesian doubt. It ignores it. It is obvious that we all consider external reality obvious. Forrest Gump has no do...
I think a good argument is that you ought allow the will of the democracy be expressed to the greatest extent possible and that you employ the non-dem...
There is no absolute safety, but varying degrees, and it sounds like where you live is relatively peaceful, especially compared to other areas of the ...
But such is always the case or at least should be. We carry with us foundational principles we adhere to and from that we create a consistent world vi...
This isn't really analogous. We would derive their meaning through use, and mentally ill would refer to those with particular behaviors. Their definit...
The democratic check on the Supreme Court is very limited and onerous, requiring Constitutional amendment. If that were your attitude, you wouldn't ca...
The only way we can possibly ascertain the meaning of a word used in 1866 is by looking to how it was used. And what we know is that liberty did not i...
What does "liberty" mean and how is it being used in the various cases I cited? When faced with a novel issue regarding whether something is a substan...
The slippery slope of your position is that nothing can be explicit because if we don't know what life, liberty, property, and speech is, we don't kno...
And this responds to @"Michael"'s post as well regarding substantive due process. A quick history of this. The 14th amendment was passed following the...
[ This is confusing. There are two types of due process: procedural and substantive. Procedural due process requires, at a minimum, notice and hearing...
I think that's the road we're going down. When a document means anything you want it to mean, it really means nothing at all. I also have trust in the...
If the list of liberties did include abortion, why was it illegal in every state upon ratification of the 14th Amendment, which uses the term "liberty...
I don't know what it means to lose the Constitution, as if one day we'll just stop reading it. A real way for a document to lose meaning is to make it...
I was saying the left conflates the Constitution with liberty, not concerning themselves with the actual words of the document, but instead it's gener...
Where does your copy of the Constitution speak of the right to abortion? Why should I be required to fund a union that sends part of that money to pol...
I agree with this, but I also think the concern over discussions about loyalty prior to a nomination are irrational. Once you're selected a Justice, y...
My post was just a kind reminder that the extraordinary moments in the political cycle that are viewed as heartbreaking by one side are viewed gleeful...
The Court has too much unchecked power, but I do take great comfort in knowing that we will have a long conservative era where now young children will...
I just got the call from Trump actually. I told him if he would honor my already paid for travel plans, I'd take the job. You have to clear these thin...
Trump didn't say "Fuck De Niro" though. His comments have been less than that. What about what Maher said? I never thought the birther movement was ra...
The joke would be outrageous if Rush Limbaugh was asked to do some menial task and he responded by saying he was a house N and he wasn't fit for the f...
This is a rationalization for a double standard and it breeds contempt. The right very much feels that they are being held to a much higher standard t...
The Southern economy was dependent upon slavery. But for the slaves, the great wealth in the plantation south wouldn't exist and they'd suffer the sam...
I don't know why you insist upon this incorrect recitation of history to make your strained point that Trump is a racist agitator like what existed in...
"Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulf...
The significance of the year is that it contradicts Frank's narrative that Reconstruction was effective but some Trump-like instigators appeared and s...
No, it was not those events that sparked Republicans to come to the South to secure the rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. They had already come...
From the Wiki article on the Klan: "In the April 1868 Georgia gubernatorial election, Columbia County cast 1,222 votes for Republican Rufus Bullock. B...
"Jim Crow law, in U.S. history, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginn...
We talked past each other here. I asked why he'd advocate for the 13th Amendment (prohibiting slavery) prior to the war, which is what I thought you s...
1. There isn't ambiguity over the reason the EP was issued. Your current allowance for my explanation is in stark contrast to your initial comment, wh...
England could not intervene in the war once the EP was issued because by potraying the war as about slavery and not protecting the union, England coul...
Your distinction is valid, and I'm willing to allow more racist comments (not just crass) with less drastic penalties than you. If one buys into the a...
Getting tossed from here is a bit less than destroying an entire career. Why not shoot her in the head? The answer is proportionality, a concept we bo...
I'm not saying that only an African American can have an opinion on this. In fact, I provided my opinion for whatever it was worth. The question is wh...
Nothing you say is of substance here. You just say I'm right in some places and wrong in others and that you don't think what I said flows with the di...
The not so subtle distinction between Trump and Brexit is that in neither instance was there the systematic murder of a race of people. Comparing the ...
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