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