Note to Jeff: the thread topic is not other posters.DiogenesLamp glibly dismisses Founders and Framers, those who were close to them and in perfect position to know what they meant, and an entire Who's Who of the greatest legal authorities of early America:
- Father of the Constitution James Madison
- Alexander Hamilton, without whom we may not have HAD the Constitution
- 40% of the Signers the Constitution
- William Rawle who in addition to be United States District Attorney was a member of Franklin and Washington's inner political circle
- Thomas Jefferson's lifelong close friend Phillip Mazzei
- Aide of the Marquis de Lafayette, who was deemed a "natural born citizen" of Maryland, and who was a good friend of our first six Presidents; who wrote a 4-volume work on the history and politics of the United States of America
- Vice Chancellor Lewis Sandford of New York, who made an exhaustive study of the law
- St. George Tucker, one of America's foremost authorities on the Constitution
- Legendary US Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story
- Chancellor James Kent, one of our nation's top legal experts
- Zephaniah Swift, Connecticut legal expert whose major legal treatise was subscribed to by Supreme Court Justices and other top national leaders
- the Duc de la Rochefoucauld, who was a friend of Benjamin Franklin
- The Massachusetts State Legislature
- Courts in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee and virtually everybody else in early America who ever had anything to say on the subject.
He pretends that little several-counties-judge Samuel Roberts, who had no responsibilities in regard to national law and who cited no authority other than his own opinion, and David Ramsay, who was slapped down 36-to-1 by a group including Madison and 5 other signers of the Constitution, are authoritative, while brushing off every REAL authority in early America who ever spoke on the issue.
Because all of THOSE clearly say that he's full of BS.
That makes DiogenesLamp a FRAUD, and it makes what he posts on this topic a truckload of BS.
I don't know about you, but I'm not good with people coming on FreeRepublic and posting Constitutional fraudery, and calling the legitimate words of our Founders, Framers and real early America leaders "horse sh*t," as this guy did.