[lbo-talk] Constitutional debate

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jul 10 06:45:45 PDT 2003


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> > >
> > >"Persons" for some purposes are not necessarily
> > >"persons" for all purposes. The 3/5th compromise
> > was
> > >of course abolished sub rosa by the 13th Amendment
> > >("all other persons" referring to slaves).
> >
> > Where does the Constitution say that its words are
> > to be
> > read by the methods of Humpty Dumpty?
>
> Well, you call it Humpty Dumpty, lawyers call it law.
> Sorry.
>

We can put it in words of one syllable.

There are more things in the world than there are words.

Hence each word must name many [ooops! two syllables] different [ooops! more syllables] things.

Carrol



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