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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." -From "Common Sense," by Thomas Paine

Friday, October 5, 2012

Speaking of Activate Worcester's favorite Senator...



Scott Brown's favorite Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a public appearance this week.
 "Scalia calls himself a "textualist" and, as he related to a few hundred people who came to buy his new book and hear him speak in Washington the other day, that means he applies the words in the Constitution as they were understood by the people who wrote and adopted them.  So Scalia parts company with former colleagues who have come to believe capital punishment is unconstitutional. The framers of the Constitution didn't think so and neither does he."
If we were to govern according to the intent of our Founding Fathers, then women, minorities, and the poor couldn't vote in a race for the People's Seat because of Article I, Section 3:

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote."

I wonder if Scott Brown realizes this irony.

I also wonder if he knows how to correctly pronounce Justice Sotomayor's last name.
Posted by Sean Dacey at 3:37 PM
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