Immoral Maxims of an Unjust Judge (Introduction)

Lon Clay Hill, Jr.
A descendent of John Hancock;
Child of Kentucky, home of John Marshall Harlan, The Great Dissenter;
A voting citizen of Florida in 2000

“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred within their bones.” [from Shakespear’s Julius Caesar]

Syllabus. Fourteen primary sections with discussions of Constitutional leitmotifs. These discussions are frequently phrased in polemical terms. Normally, a Scalia Comment (“Maxim”) concerning a Constitutional or Foundational Imperative is highlighted — and then rejected as insufficient or worse after a brief and sometimes polemical argument of a couple or more pages. Most of the primary sections treat specific issues concerning the ten Bill of Rights Amendments and/or the Fourteenth Amendment. The first Appendices explore additional underlying issues which cannot be so easily encapsulated in a few paragraphs — at least by this author. The Appendices include an appreciation for Scalia’a legal contributions (Appendix A), a relatively neutral description of linguistic complexities (Appendix B), and Biliographies of both Cases and Books . More general — sometimes quite disputatious — issues are considered in the other Appendices. Appendix R treats some religious issues of particular interest to some American citizens. Additional Appendices may be presented after the initial posting of the 14 primary sections and Appendices A-I.

CONTENTS:
TABLE OF CONTENTS [posted June 27, 2010]
PRELUDE [here] & 14 POLEMICAL DISCUSSIONS...
FOOTNOTES...
APPENDICES A THRU I...
[ADDITIONAL APPENDICES (in preparation)