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.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
TRUTH JUSTICE MAAT 14TH AMENDMENT
TRUTH, JUSTICE, MAAT, 14th AMEN.
If equal protection is "truth" and if due process is "justice", then there is little reason for wonder that the 14th Amendment, containing both clauses , equal protection and due process , is rightly remembered in this 150 year of its ratification into American law, as the "constitution within the constitution." For the 14th's juridical antiquity equates to that of the "wheel in the middle of a wheel" of Ezekiel 1:16, and even more anciently, equates to goddess "Maat" of ancient Egypt, whose attributes combine 'truth,' 'justice,' law, order, balance, harmony and beauty, that each human heart as weighed against an ostrich feather on Maat's scale has to pass, before entering into eternal salvation at life's last judgment scene of Osiris. http://ib205.tripod.com/underworld_judgement.html