[lbo-talk] weimar shadows

[Alan Rudy]

Originalism isn't where I'd have thought most leftist lawyers would take
themselves relative to this silliness.
Along those lines, the drafters of the original Constitution, had no
intention of considering Black or Native American suffrage and the drafters
of the Fourteenth Amendment pretty clearly had no intention of considering
women's suffrage or gay rights or... why the hell would anyone on the left
treat such arguments as even potentially intelligent?  Myself, I'm much more
likely to see arguments which deal with materialist histories, standpoint
epistemologies and situated knowledges as intelligent.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> But then, the
> > supposedly dodgy birth certificate rises from its shallow, rhetorical
> > grave, like a reanimated zombie.
> >
>
> Incidentally, I've been told, by a leftist Constitutional lawyer who has
> always, in my experience, known what he's talking about, that there is, in
> fact, an intelligent "Birther" argument against the Obama presidency.
> Apparently, it is by no means clear that the drafters of either the
> original
> Constitution or the Fourteenth Amendment intended that someone holding
> multiple citizenships at birth, such as Obama, should be considered "a
> natural born Citizen" for presidential purposes.
>
> Not that I know the first thing about such matters, or make it a point to
> concern myself with them. But as long as we're making whipping boys of
> particular opinions, I think we should be clear on just how outrageous they
> are or are not.
>
> --
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> lytlað."
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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