People Look At Rights As If They

Campaign Promises Are - By Long Democratic Tradition - The Least Binding Form Of Human Commitment.

Ever So Subtly, Without Even Alluding To The Last Obstacles Preserved By Earlier Opinions That We Now Push Out Of Our Path, We Effectively Replace The Goal Of A Discrimination-free Society With The Quite Imcompatible Goal Of Proportionate Representation By Race And By Sex In The Workplace.

Scalia Said The Court Had Pretty Much Signed On To The So-called Homosexual Agenda, Adding: Let Me Be Clear That I Have Nothing Against Homosexuals, Or Any Other Group, Promoting Their Agenda Through Normal Democratic Means.

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."

As Long As Judges Tinker With The Constitution To 'do What The People Want,' Instead Of What The Document Actually Commands, Politicians Who Pick And Confirm New Federal Judges Will Naturally Want Only Those Who Agree With Them Politically.