DEEP AUTUMN FLOWERS: PROGRAM

Ghosts of Tom Paine: Decadal Review of Bush v. Gore (2000) [Post of Dec. 12, 2010]
INITIAL POSTS (June 2010):
Immoral Maxims of An Unjust Judge: Rhetorical Repartees and Constitutional Arguments Discrediting and Refuting Both the Quips and Substance of Antonin Scalia's Legal Opinions. Several Components: Maxims & Repartees; Appendices; References
ADDITIONAL POSTS
Spiritual Intersections: Nietzsche's Aphorisms and Jesus Words (August 2010)
Henry Clay (Oct 2010)
PLANNED POSTS:
Essays on Distinctions and Tensions between literal, parablefull, metaphorical and mythological religious language



OCCASIONAL POSTS"
Book Reviews (Supreme Court; Friedrich Nietzsche…)




Sunday, June 27, 2010

Table of Contents:The Unjust Judge (Antonin Scalia)

TABLE OF CONTENTS: IMMORAL MAXIMS OF AN UNJUST JUDGE
SUBSTANTIVE ARGUMENT WITH RHETORICAL COLOR ADDRESSING SOME OVERPRAISED REMARKS OF JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA
[1st Postings (June 27, 2010)]

PRELUDE
1. THE COVENANT SHORN (Divorcing the Constitution from the Declaration of Independence)
2. THE OATH AND THE MAN: DUTY DEPRECATED
3. THE TEXT OF THE CHARTER: HONOR OR MUMMIFICATION
4. THE FOUNDER'S CONSTITUTION AND OUR CONSTITUTION (A less polemical Interlude)
5. 5th & 14th AMENDMENT: DUE PROCESS (Formal Procedures versus Duty, Substance, and Reality)
6. 1st AMENDMENT: THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE (Religious Freedom versus the Coveting of Preferential Treatment)
7. 1st AMENDMENT: FREE SPEECH & $POWER (Freedom of Speech, Corporate Rights, Obscenity, and the Power of Money)
8. 8th AMENDMENT: CRUELl & UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT (Rigor Mortis in Scalia’s Constitutional Prospecti)
9. 9th AMENDMENT: UNENUMERATED RIGHTS (Homosexual Sodomy and Gay Rights)
10. 5th, 8th & 14th AMENDMENTS: THE DEATH PENALTY
11. THE 14th AMENDMENT MISUSED (Bush v. Gore)
12. THE FOUNDER'S VISION & THE SCOUNDREL'S REFUGE (A decent respect for the Opinions of all Mankind...)
13. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS & CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS (Some deeper streams of Democratic Justice.)
14. LIBERTY & THE CONSTITUTION (A Constitution whose Principles Live in the Heart of Men and Women)

FOOTNOTES
CASES CITED
BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS AND ARTICLES

APPENDIX A - COMMENDATIONS FROM A JUDICIAL OPPONENT
APPENDIX B - MULTIPLE IMPLICATIONS OF WORDS IN NORMAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE: A PRIMER
APPENDIX C - RATIONAL PUNISHMENT: REASON v. REVENGE (Rationales of Rehabilitation, Restitution, Retribution, Revenge...)
APPENDIX D - DEAD SPOTS IN SCALIA’S CONSTITUTION
APPENDIX E - CASUISTRY IN SCALIA’S REASONING
APPENDIX F - OPAQUE TENSIONS & STRUCTURAL CONTRADICTIONS IN SCALIA’S THOUGHT
APPENDIX G - ECCE HOMO: Behold the Man!!

For later Development:
APPENDIX R - SPECIAL FOOTNOTES (i.e. RELIGIOUS ARGUMENT [sub silentio])
APPENDIX S - SILLY SCALIAISMS
APPENDIX W - MORE GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: BUSH v. GORE
APPENDIX X - CORPORATE $PEECH or SPEECH, MONEY, AND GREED
APPENDIX Z - FUNDAMENTAL TENSIONS AND/OR CONTRADICTIONS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

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