It's very reassuring to see the esteemed Judge Bork is on board with the thoughtomator school of constitutional jurisprudence =)
Kudos to you!
This is absolutely the most apt observation anyone has made during the week following the Miers nomination!
There are American citizens who have never been to law school, but who have devoted themselves to a study of:
- the writings of America's Founders;
- the debates of the Constitutional Convention and in the States;
- THE FEDERALIST;
- the newspapers and sermons of the period in which the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were framed;
- the wisdom literature of the ages and the writings which influenced the Founders' understanding;
- histories of civilizations preceding ours;
- opinions and decisions handed down by the Court since its inception.
Some of you may be familiar with some of those citizens who have loved the ideas of liberty enough to immerse themselves in a study of those ideas, not because they had to, but because they wanted to.
If you are, then you know that they, if named to the Supreme Court, would bring a level of understanding and devotion that would exceed that of most lawyers and judges alive today, simply because most law schools have not required such intense study of the ideas and principles underlying our liberty.
None of them would meet the standards being cited by the "talking heads" who have come out of the woodwork on this one, however.