Anti-Climacus

AH, DAVID:

"I've never understood people who take the Bible literally and the constitution loosely."

he says, in reference to this. Obviously, our dear boy is familiar with neither Federalist 78 nor Andrew Jackson's views on where the right to interpret laws resides (to say nothing of his Jeffersonian slant on the reading of the first amendment, which forthrightly pretends as if opposition to that view doesn't exist). I suppose he would argue, then, that it would've been wrong to oppose the Fugitive Slave Law because the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scot that it was perfectly legal.