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I'm tired of Original Intent folks constantly quoting the Federalist Papers. Jeez, it was only 3 or 5 guys. So HERE you bastards!

 

...whatever veneration might be entertained for the body of men who formed our constitution, the sense of that body could never be regarded as the oracular guide in...expounding the constitution. As the instrument came from them, it was nothing more than the draught of a plan, nothing but a dead letter, until life and validity were breathed into it, by the voice of the people,speaking through the several state conventions. If we were to look therefore, for the meaning of the instrument, beyond the face of the instrument, we must look for it not in the general convention, which proposed, but in the state conventions, which accepted it and ratified the constitution...

 

James Madison in Congress, April 6, 1796 (A Fed Costitution Baby Daddy)

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"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is no use'. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for."

 

- George Leigh Mallory.

 

(Died while climbing Everest in 1924.)

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Concerning the law of theft

And concerning the law of theft the legislation is this: whoever

steals two öre or less than two öre, is to pay a six-öre fine for

petty larceny. If he steals between two öre and a mark of silver,

he will be taken before the assembly and marked and be

committed to pay wergild (i.e. that of the victim). If he steals

again after he has been marked, even if it be less, then he shall be

hanged. If he steals as much as a mark of silver or more, then he

shall also hang.

- THE LAW OF THE GOTLANDERS, Medieval law

 

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