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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

>From today's WSJ:

Excerpts:

"..........Today, we live in a far different environment. My generation, the 
self-indulgent "me" generation, has had a profound effect on much around us. 
Rarely do we hear a message of sacrifice -- unless it is a justification for 
more taxation and transfers of wealth to others. Nor do we hear from leaders 
or politicians the message that there is something larger and more important 
than the government providing for all of our needs and wants -- large and 
small. The message today seems more like: Ask not what you can do for 
yourselves or your country, but what your country must do for 
you...............

.........As I have traveled across the country, I have been astounded just 
how many of our fellow citizens feel strongly about their constitutional 
rights but have no idea what they are, or for that matter, what the 
Constitution says. I am not suggesting that they become Constitutional 
scholars -- whatever that means. I am suggesting, however, that if one feels 
strongly about his or her rights, it does make sense to know generally what 
the Constitution says about them. It is at least as easy to understand as a 
cell phone contract -- and vastly more important..........

.......Let me put it this way; there are really only two ways to interpret 
the Constitution -- try to discern as best we can what the framers intended 
or make it up. No matter how ingenious, imaginative or artfully put, unless 
interpretive methodologies are tied to the original intent of the framers, 
they have no more basis in the Constitution than the latest football scores. 
To be sure, even the most conscientious effort to adhere to the original 
intent of the framers of our Constitution is flawed, as all methodologies and 
human institutions are; but at least originalism has the advantage of being 
legitimate and, I might add, impartial.   "



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122445985683948619.html

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