Tarsonis Survivors wrote:Jaselvania wrote:
WRONG. Only people who think they're smarter then everyone else have trouble realizing that your smarty-pants interpretation of words that aren't there DOESN'T MATTER. The Constitution is clear as day and doesn't need to be "interpreted" for us "idiots".
"The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction, and no excuse for interpolation or addition."
Except it does matter. It will be interpreted because the SCOTUS has that authority. In fact they used that authority to give itself that authority.
"In fact they used that authority to give itself that authority" Ughhh. That power is not theirs to grant themselves. Hamilton even wrote about this:
"Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people, declared in the Constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter rather than the former."