Reply #62: That is true. However, ultimately, the Constitution says whatever the majority of Justices say [View All]

[Romulox]

it says.

Scholarship of Constitutional law therefore provides less insight on how this (or any case) will be decided than does a good working knowledge of partisan politics and ideologies. For example, one of the leading Constitutional doctrines of the 20th century was based on the so-called "substantive due process" clause of the US Constitution. While I don't argue against some of the rights (nor penumbrae) discovered therein, such a process of impressionistic discovery does not give itself to orderly study...