It Is Difficult To Maintain The Illusion

Nowhere Else In The Constitution Does A "right" Attributed To "the People" Refer To Anything Other Than An Individual Right. What Is More, In All Six Other Provisions Of The Constitution That Mention "the People," The Term Unambiguously Refers To All Members Of The Political Community, Not An Unspecified Subset... The Second Amendment Extends, Prima Facie, To All Instruments That Constitute Bearable Arms... The Very Text Of The Second Amendment Implicitly Recognizes The Pre-existence Of The Right And Declares Only That It "shall Not Be Infringed."

The Mere Possession Of Monopoly Power, And The Concomitant Charging Of Monopoly Prices, Is Not Only Not Unlawful, It Is An Important Element Of The Free-market System. The Opportunity To Charge Monopoly Prices - At Least For A Short Period - Is What Attracts 'business Acumen' In The First Place; It Induces Risk Taking That Produces Innovation And Economic Growth.

Is It Really So Easy To Determine That Smacking Someone In The Face To Find Out Where He Has Hidden The Bomb That Is About To Blow Up Los Angeles Is Prohibited By The Constitution?

Devout Christians Are Destined To Be Regarded As Fools In Modern Society. We Are Fools For Christ's Sake. We Must Pray For Courage To Endure The Scorn Of The Sophisticated World.

Individuals Who Have Been Wronged By Unlawful Racial Discrimination Should Be Made Whole; But Under Our Constitution There Can Be No Such Thing As Either A Creditor Or A Debtor Race. That Concept Is Alien To The Constitution's Focus Upon The Individual. ...to Pursue The Concept Of Racial Entitlement - Even For The Most Admirable And Benign Of Purposes - Is To Reinforce And Preserve For Future Mischief The Way Of Thinking That Produced Race Slavery, Race Privilege And Race Hatred. In The Eyes Of Government, We Are Just One Race Here. It Is American.