Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.

Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.

The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

To be honest about it, that is the view of Christians taken by modern society. Surely those who adhere to all or most of these traditional Christian beliefs are to be regarded as simpleminded.