Monday,
April 28, 2008
Video: Justice Antonin
Scalia Interview on "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl
The
ANNOTICO Report
This
15 minute interview with Justice Antonin Scalia is
RARE, and took place on "60 Minutes" on Sunday April 27, 2008.
While
many consider Justice Scalia "Right Wing", he
considers himself an "Originalist" (in
interpreting the Constitution). He also gets great pleasure out of
describing The Constitution as a "Dead" document, in contradicting
teachers who describe it as a "Living"
Document.
While few
of us would be able to match Scalia's Intellect or his Debating Skills, I dare
to question Scalia's reasoning, and my basis would be while I agree with
Scalia that The Constitution was a Remarkable, and Revolutionary Democratic Innovation, it was still created
by
"Imperfect" Human Beings in a Less Enlightened Era, who were
Neophytes at dealing with a New Concept, not to speak of Egos and Self Interest (both
personal and state),......and was therefore a LESS than "Perfect"
Document, so it does not deserve to be looked at as sacrosanct.
After all, it permitted Slavery, and Women had No Rights.
And
as Brilliant as Scalia is, He is unable to Recognize that the Framers even
recognized their fallibility, and PROVIDED for AMENDMENTS, of which there
has been TWENTY SEVEN, the last in 1992, and unquestionably more to come, which
makes The Constitution a "LIVING" Document.
In
Scalia's Defense, he says that if person's want certain social circumstances or
change, although he philosophically might not agree with it, the answer is
LEGISLATION, not to "Imagine" that right being in the Constitution.
Also, what I do give Scalia credit for, is his referring to the
"pride" he was able to bring to the Italian American Community, by
his appointment, to partially "offset" the Mafia
"albatross" the Media has hung around the neck of the Italian
Americans.
On
so many Videos there are stops and stutters, but the Interview is
worth the distractions.
I
was fortunate enough to see it on TV.
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to
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