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"With a majority of the public now supporting same-sex marriage (overwhelmingly among Democrats and young people, and even by a slim margin of Republicans under the age of 50), those who believe, as I do, that the Constitution acquires meaning outside the courts are seeing powerful validation. Yet it’s validation with an interesting footnote. When Theodore Olson and David Boies filed their lawsuit against Proposition 8 four years ago, they were met with deep skepticism and even anger from the established gay-rights groups that had refrained from just such litigation. It was too soon to present the Supreme Court with such a big target, the mainstream thinking ran. Let the issue continue to develop. Don’t invite backlash."

..."In order to make any progress at all, we must restrict ourselves to what, precisely, is covered by the Second Amendment. That is not hard to determine, once the irrelevant debris adrift around its every term has been cleared away. Each term exists in a discernible historic context, as does the sentence structure of the amendment."

“I go to First Baptist,” she said. “I wear a Pentecostal hairdo. I play the organ at the Episcopal church. When I could sing, I was the alto at Church of Christ. I have taught in a Catholic school. I am 77, and I am not a little old lady with a 15-year-old car that has 3,000 miles on it. I sky-dived last summer. I have a life, and I love this class.”

Did you find phrases in the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, "dissolve the political bonds","connect them with one another" and "laws of nature" clever and convincing when you were reading the Declaration? Do you think specific metaphors such as " sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance" were things that people during that time could relate to?

I think Sam clearly articulated why the Gettysburg Address is considered as a great speech, and how it brought so much attention to the people. But to add on his comments, I believe the speech reminded people that they are one, united nation. In fact, the Declaration of Independence show that they fought against the British government as a unified body.