America started educating its young children officially in 1642, which was within one generation of surviving the famine and disease that killed most of the early colonists. The purpose of this education was to assure that children could read, write, and do basic sums within the context of a developing moral core. That concept lasted until the 1960s. Within public schools today, many of our children cannot read, write, or think, and are unfamiliar with what constitutes right and wrong. The Supreme Court paved the way for this.
The Court, as it does in all eras, exists
in the culture of the times, although it is the one institution in the
American system that is theoretically to remain outside the fires of
current political thought and inside the vast libraries that house the
Common Law of ages past and the empirical wisdom developed through
representative bodies -- even colonial ones -- throughout our country's
lifetime. These are our few sacred, true scholars who are to fend off
the uglier machinations of human corruption that forever pressure the
justices to join the Legions of A Mediocre Mind............To Read More....
