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If You Think Aficionados Of A Living Constitution Want To Bring You Flexibility, Think Again. You Think The Death Penalty Is A Good Idea? Persuade Your Fellow Citizens To Adopt It. You Want A Right To Abortion? Persuade Your Fellow Citizens And Enact It. That's Flexibility.

Words No Longer Have Meaning If An Exchange That Is Not Established By A State Is "established By The State".

There Is No Basis In Text, Tradition, Or Even In Contemporary Practice (if That Were Enough), For Finding In The Constitution A Right To Demand Judicial Consideration Of Newly Discovered Evidence Of Innocence Brought Forward After Conviction. My Concern Is That In Making Life Easier For Ourselves We Not Appear To Make It Harder For The Lower Federal Courts, Imposing Upon Them The Burden Of Regularly Analyzing Newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence Claims In Capital Cases (in Which Event Such Federal Claims, It Can Confidently Be Predicted, Will Become Routine And Even Repetitive).

Bear In Mind That Brains And Learning, Like Muscle And Physical Skill, Are Articles Of Commerce. They Are Bought And Sold. You Can Hire Them By The Year Or By The Hour. The Only Thing In The World Not For Sale Is Character.

[international Law] Doesn't Show What The Constitution Originally Meant, And It Doesn't Show What Is Fundamentally Important To Americans Today. It Shows What's Fundamentally Important To Somebody Else Today.