Attorneys Quotes
The two law enforcement officers had testified that they arrested demonstrators who had “come to break the law” and had not at that point broken any laws.
The definition of child pornography can be so vague that none but a specialized attorney could tell, and even then the courts often disagree.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons American society is so litigious.
This quotation is very important because it illustrates in the first of our great national political debates, the same views held by extreme, right wing anti-government, and Tea Party adherents regarding government in general and taxation in particular. Singletary turned out to have been absolutely right about the inadequacy of import duties as a federal revenue source although it took many decades and a changing world to make that come to pass. Note also that there was then, as there is today among the extreme right, a deep suspicion and antipathy toward intellectuals—“men of learning” as well as the elites. Some saw the Constitution as a plot of the elite to capture control of the government to the exclusion of the poor and average man. That has always been a problem but these roots are deep in American history. See {634235} and {634238} for more of his arguments at the Ratification Convention.
