What Wilson is talking about is how he believed that he should be able to bend the law to his favor.
In that regard he is no different than King John or Henry VIII who did all they could to nullify established law in order to make their will the law of the land.
I haven't taken your writing as a denigration at all. Every time I find an opportunity to add a little history to a post I do it.
The "living and breathing" bit is a way for progressives to dismiss established law and make it available for someone like Obama to extract his will upon the people.
Meant to include you on the above post. Sorry!
Wilson was half-British and apparently visited Northern England, where his mother was from, frequently. Might explain his anglophilia.
That’s a good thing, in my view. When I originally wrote my paper some time ago, if I would have had access to someone such as yourself with more in-depth knowledge of the document itself and how it evolved I probably could have written something even better.
Thanks for posting.