[PLUG-TALK] Fair Use, etc.
J.A. Henshaw
jeff at jhenshaw.com
Wed Mar 27 23:18:17 UTC 2002
Wil Cooley wrote:
> Also Sprach Craighead, Scot D <craighead.scot at vectorscm.com> on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:16:14PM PST
>
>>Wil spoke thusly:
>>
>>>You should have been less disingenuous and said "liberals" instead of
>>>"activists."
>>>
>>I do apologize if I gave anyone the impression that I am not a conservative.
>>That was not my intension. I believe that the constitution was written
>>intensionally so that the lay person could understand it. That gives it
>>it's power. ("We, the people...") It takes a special kind of education to
>>read those same words and think that "is" doesn't really mean "is".
>>
>
> You never have. It also takes some special education to know
> that the verb "to coin" doesn't mean "to make coins," even with
> regard to money (sorry Jeff).
>
> If you do believe that it was written intentionally so a lay
> person could interpret it, how do you feel about the education
> required to understand a document written in 200-year-old English?
> How about the inability of the average lay person to not understand
> a fair number of the words in the Constitution, particularly the
> afforementioned difference caused by 200 years of language mutation?
>
> Wil
>
Additionally, lawyers use Latin intentionally to make it so
the lay person CANNOT understand it.
There is no reason we should not expect lay persons to
understand English.
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on what they
will have for lunch.
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