Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, June 13, 2014
'ORIGINAL INTENT' IS RACIST AND FASCIST
'Original intent' is racist and fascist
All things change, mutate, or evolve in time, whether material or intellectual, law and its enabling legal principles being no exception to this general rule.
Why then some judges would rely upon the 'original intent' of the slaveholding framers of the US Constitution, and their privies, instead of recognizing change, is done to mask and dissemble their racist or fascist malevolence behind statutory construction rubric.
Such deceitful practices, not only negate those principles of change, mutation, and evolution governing all things, but they also willfully ignore the ensuing historical occurrences--like the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement--and the later Constitutional Amendments and statutes that nullified such slaveholders' 'original intent.'