On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, the awl was quoted:
>
>> <http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/scalia-the-constitution-is-there-to-keep-us-from-doing-butt-stuff
>> >
>
>> 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.
>>
>> The whole purpose of a constitution is to constrain the desires of
>> the current society.
>
> 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.
Well, whose desires are being constrained, what kind, by whom, for what end? Scalia's examples are abortion & sodomy.