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
DEEP AUTUMN FLOWERS: CRITIQUES OF RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL HYPOCRISY. A blog countering popular forms of political-religious hypocrisy. Hypocrisy concealed under the mantle of nationalism and religion is especially needy of criticism. When injustice is proud, smug, and inconsistent, it should be openly confronted. Added rhetorical flourishes may make explicit value-laden assumptions. I begin with blogs on Justice Antonin Scalia (Immoral Maxims of an Unjust Judge) and Nietzsche.
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…)
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