Why Can't The State Accede To The

Power Tends To Corrupt. But The Power In Washington Resides In Congress, If It Wants To Use It. It Can Do Anything-it Can Stop The Vietnam War. It Can Make Its Will Felt, If It Can Ever Get Its Act Together To Do Anything.

Many Think It Not Only Inevitable But Entirely Proper That Liberty Give Way To Security In Times Of National Crisis--that, At The Extremes Of Military Exigency, Inter Arma Silent Leges. Whatever The General Merits Of The View That War Silences Law Or Modulates Its Voice, That View Has No Place In The Interpretation And Application Of A Constitution Designed Precisely To Confront War And, In A Manner That Accords With Democratic Principles, To Accommodate It.

Why In The World Would You Have It Interpreted By Nine Lawyers?

It's A Long, Uphill Fight To Get Back To Original Orthodoxy. We Have Two 'originalists' On The Supreme Court. That's Something.

Words No Longer Have Meaning If An Exchange That Is Not Established By A State Is "established By The State".