From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Mon Mar 22 1999 - 06:54:20 MST
Michael S. Lorrey [mike@lorrey.com] wrote:
>The one weakness I feel the US Constitution has is that it lacks an
>explicit glossary. There should be
>a glossary of simple definitions that are hard to misunderstand.
I don't see why anyone would need a glossary to understand the Constitution;
it seems to have been written in simple terms that anyone could understand,
so that any jury could easily tell whether a law was unconstitutional and
acquit if it was. The problem is not the wording, it's that generations of
lawyers have convinced people that it's a much more complicated document than
it really is, and that phrases like 'shall not be infringed' don't really,
actually mean that.
Mark
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