FW: Did the dissent in the health care case misuse an Alexander Hamilton quote?

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Fri Jul 6 21:02:44 UTC 2012


At 7/6/2012 04:36 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>Aficionados of quotation misuse may enjoy this blog posting:
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>http://sbmblog.typepad.com/sbm-blog/2012/07/did-the-health-care-dissenters-misuse-a-federalist-quotation.html
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>Fred
>Shapiro<http://sbmblog.typepad.com/sbm-blog/2012/07/did-the-health-care-dissenters-misuse-a-federalist-quotation.html>
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And these are the judges who claim to be the only correct
interpreters of "original intent"!  They don't even understand the
18th century's rhetorical use of sarcasm.

Joel

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