Tribe is nuts! But, he has many defenders who believe every word he writes!
“From our country’s most renowned scholar of constitutional law comes a book so breathtaking in its originality and wide-ranging in its scope that it will become an instant classic. To read The Invisible Constitution is to enter the mind of a brilliant thinker as he reflects upon many of the most important issues of the day.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Tribe, defended Goodwin against plagiarism
In The Invisible Constitution, Tribe argues that there is an unseen constitution—impalpable but powerful—that accompanies the parchment version. It is the visible document’s shadow, its dark matter: always there and possessing some of its key meanings and values despite its absence on the page. As Tribe illustrates, some of our most cherished and widely held beliefs about constitutional rights are not part of the written document, but can only be deduced by piecing together hints and clues from it. Moreover, some passages of the Constitution do not even hold today despite their continuing existence. Amendments may have fundamentally altered what the Constitution originally said about slavery and voting rights, yet the old provisos about each are still in the text, unrevised.
As Tribe illustrates, some of our most cherished and widely held beliefs about constitutional rights are not part of the written document, but can only be deduced by piecing together hints and clues from it.What is to stop someone from piecing together hints and clues to justify the use of torture in police interrogations?