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Justice Scalia also claims that the ‘Constitution is static’.
Analogizing to numbers, that’s like saying ‘real’, not ‘integer’. It’s not ‘simple’, but very complicated, even ‘irrational’, maybe even ‘imaginary’.
For example, we are entitled under ‘unalienable’ (i.e. future spacemen (see movie ‘Paul’) cannot take it away and that’s ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness’.
Now some of you hedonistic devils might think that your right of pursuit of happiness allows you to say have sexual encounters with all sorts of beings from animals to children to same sex individuals and whatever… even rape, because ‘it makes me happy’.
Well, the rub is ‘happiness’ has been stretched in meaning. ’Gay’ also used to mean ‘feeling joyful’.
Going back to a parallel source to our ‘Static’ constitution, let’s look at Charles Thomson, the Secretary of the Constitutional Congress, whose Bible he translated from the original Greek, not the Latin of King James version. The publisher was also the first female publisher in the USA. So Thomson’s beatitudes replace ‘Blessed’ with ‘Happy’ Matthew 5:3-12 reads: ‘Happy the poor in spirit; for the kingdom of the heavens is theirs. Happy they who mourn…comforted. Happy the meek … inherit the land. Happy who hunger and thirst for righteousness … satisfied. Happy the merciful; … obtain mercy. Happy the pure in heart; … see God. Happy the peace makers; … children of God. Happy they who are persecuted for righteousness… heaven is theirs. Happy are ye when men will revile and persecute you and accuse you falsely of every evil thing on my account. Rejoice … great will be your reward in heaven…
Now do you get it? Happy and Blessed are connected in the constitution as part of the ‘REAL’ Static meaning.
I recommend you go get a copy of Thomson’s Bible from the Princeton U. library, courtesy of Google scanning of great works.
Now as the Leftists and “Living Constitutionalists’ would have it, changing the words of the constitution severs us from the timing and the surrounding ‘statis’ of the founding document, losing the complexity and reality of the document. We can only ‘imagine’ why ‘happy’ was used, and it may well be to encourage those to enliven themselves and consider this radical, seemingly ‘sinfully delightful’ requirement so as to bring more people into the fold, into the arms of those who care. As opposed to a State or King or General who care about the State, the Kingdom or the Battle, respectively. Happy, yet?
Didn’t get the Valentine that would make you ‘happy’? Well, Bucko, ‘poor in spirit’… might just get a kingdom someday.
