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The ways we interpret the U.S. Constitution

"...interpretations of the Constitution by people denying the absolute authority of the Supreme Law of the Land is ethically wrong and esthetically appalling." 

New Year advice how  to be
ethically right and esthetically superb
 by Boris Tiraspolsky, Founding Member of 

It is a distinctive ability of a culturally fashioned Human Mind to interpret texts. However, there is a great deal of difference in approaches to do that. One by trying to learn in depth what a text impartially conveys discovers new layers of meaning in that text. Another one imposes on that text own “cultural” view inevitably distorting and misrepresenting an original text. 
 
The Text of the Constitution of the United States - the Supreme Law of the Land - happened to be a major “victim” of flourishing “cultural” views by the American people, both governed and governing. One does not have to go far for proving that!
 
The newly elected President dares to say publicly that the Constitution of the United States “is not finished doc-ument”. The Congress is notorious for having a long history of ignorance in constitutional issues. U.S. courts including the U.S. Supreme Court disregard almost any constitutional inquiry considered as “politically incorrect”. Furthermore, majority of the U.S. population accepts and supports all these “cultural“ happenings imposed on the Constitution. 

A clear sign of the described above problem is an artificial domination of strictly “judicial” way of interpreting the text of the Supreme Law of the Land. The latter almost totally abandoned the fundamental principles of the Ideology of the U.S. Constitution that deals with vital matters of practical ideas and Ideals of the Constitution in every day live of the people.

Needles to remind that the Constitution of the United States being the embodiment of absolute Ethics - the people’s code of moral conduct, and perfect Esthetics - the people’s “useful” ability to distinguish Beauty from ugliness - was never intended to be monopolized for interpreting by lawyers imposing their “cultural” views and skillfully twisting words. 

Therefore, any so-called pure “judicial” interpretations of the Constitution must be always “supreme” ethically and esthetically. And a vice versa: interpretations of practical ideas and Ideals of the Constitution supposedly impacting every day life of the people must not be controversial to the Principles ordained and established by the Supreme Law of the Land.

In other words a lack of presence absolute Ethics in and comprehension of perfect Esthetics by minds of those performing “judicial” interpretations of the Constitution - from district Magistrates to Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court - makes those interpretations predictably erroneous both judicially and ideologically. Evidently, any ideological interpretations of the Constitution by people denying the absolute authority of the Supreme Law of the Land is ethically wrong and esthetically appalling.
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