It’s Not A Requirement for the Job, But Just In Case . . .
July 13, 2009
NBC news reported this morning that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor spent a lot of time in the last couple of weeks booking up on constitutional law, a subject matter that she was apparently unschooled in prior to her recent cram session.
Note that the phrase “constitutional law” was used, and not “the Constitution.” So-called constitutional law is the body of legalese that has been built up over the generations that politicians and judges rely on to justify ignoring all constitutional constraints on governmental power. It was invented by the Father of Constitutional Subversion, Alexander Hamilton, who was the first to discover “implied powers” in the Constitution.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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