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> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, the awl was quoted:
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>> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/scalia-the-constitution-is-there-to-keep-us-from-doing-butt-stuff
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> Here's the second one. It's a little more recent. It comes from Supreme
>> Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who made an appearance with fellow Justice
>> Stephen Breyer in Arizona yesterday.
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>> The whole purpose of a constitution is to constrain the desires of the
>> current society.
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> To be fair, that is kind of true. A constitutional democracy is like a
> constitutional monarchy: the constitution constrains what the sovereign can
> do. That's what it means to have a constitution.
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> Michael
Does a constitutional democracy have a sovereign with meaningful "wants?"