[lbo-talk] 2d Amendment/Rule of Law (Was: The curse of literacy)

[Shane Mage]

Justin wrote:
>
"No, meaning is as unstable as it is whereever.  Believe you me I 
know better than you how unstable or uncertain it is in law. That's 
why they pay me all this money. But Rorty's point is that you cannot, 
in democracy, in a free society, make your laws based on the idea 
that some highly contentious philosophical theory, like 
deconstructionism or Quinean indeterminacy of translation or whatever 
is right..."

This is pure obfuscation. It is a question of syntax and therefore
absolutely clear.  In the US Constitution the word "people" is
plural and not collective and is defined as such in the very first
word ("We") of the document.  If judges ignore that fact, this simply
is additional proof of how intellectually corrupt the legal game is
under capitalism.  Likewise, a preliminary rhetorical subordinate clause
("A well-regulated militia...") cannot cancel the clear meaning of a 
well-formed principal clause ("The right of the people...").

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos
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