My good friends, I would like to submit a challenge. With the many political threads we have here at the cat, sometime we argue on emotion, I raise my hand "guilty as charged" Lets try this, if we have a position, take the time to justified the position, via the words of the Constitution, the writings of the founding fathers. What I find is it takes the labels left and right out of the argument. What would they have to say. Prove the point by quote.

When the Supreme court hears a case, they look at the Constitution first, if it is not clear, the look at the writings of the founders, debate and come to a conclusion. This is great for the mind ... it takes the strong emotion out of it ... sometimes we will find what we did not want to find, or we find exactly what we thought. The copy of Jefferson's autobiography should be on the coffee table of every American by the way.

Love DAn