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Originally Posted by Rich Z

Actually, the US Constitution did not just pop out of a vacuum, and there are many MANY writings of the time available to fully explain and detail what was on the framers' minds when the Constitution was drafted and then accepted.

These writings include the contemporary writings of the framers, newspaper articles, the Federalist Papers, and the notes from the Constitutional Convention itself. There really isn't much assumption necessary to see what they had in mind at the time. It's been pretty well spelled out.

Ok, I'm going to have a John Lennon moment here and hopefully it won't bite me in the azz.
It's like the Bible. We wern't there to witness it, but I still believe it

a vacuum
I think you misunderstood my point. Oh well, we're saying the same thing

As for the SCOTUS, hell, WHO hires them and WHO writes out their paychecks? The Supreme Court justices are not picked by the people, they are picked by the very agency they were designed to protect US from.

That's pretty much what I said, isn't it?
Regardless, you can't put your head in the sand and pretend they don't exist.

And on occasion, they do something right

So in a round about way, we're still saying (somewhat) the same thing.

To start off with, do you think that the government is seriously going to "hire" someone who shows a propensity to seriously try to throw a monkey wrench into their goals?

We've done it before