Comments | pemberleya: why don't you come over here and divide my state's sovereignty?

pemberleya

why don't you come over here and divide my state's sovereignty?

Jan 25, 2006 14:23

am totally hating constitutional law. it's. so. annoying. they act like it's a real substantive class, but it's just philosophy. speculative history. what do we think the framers had in mind when they wrote this stuff? i don't care. not a bit. what they had in mind was never important. what is important is what they wrote and the language the ( Read more... )

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redlightpress January 25 2006, 20:40:45 UTC

But philosophy is the foundation of, like, everything! Of course it's important! You can't really learn about how different people have interpreted the words unless you know their philosophical reasoning for it, it's not like a science formula.

That class actually sounds fun to me...

textureslut January 25 2006, 21:03:24 UTC

Introduction to Constitutional Law was by far my favorite class I ever took and I really like debating the arguments in Federalist Papers. Yet more evidence that you are the anti-Tracy.

disembodiment January 25 2006, 21:37:04 UTC

That's awesome that you are learning to knit. I find that it is a great stress reliever.

I obviously love philosophy and constitutional law sounds really intriguing, but I know that these are things that often sound really exciting until you get into some boring nitty gritty (hehe...knitty gritty...ok, sorry). I wonder whether there are more radical ideas about interpreting constitutional law; I always figured that some people would say it doesn't matter what the framers thought because times have changed and it's a living document, and all that stuff.

A public interest lawyer was telling me recently that I will find some classes in law school incredibly boring and useless; I think every program has a few classes like that where you just can't make yourself interested in it, but you've just got to grit your teeth and get through it somehow.

Good luck with the career stuff; it's never fun.

pythonmont January 25 2006, 23:44:41 UTC

totally with ya on the "god damn i hate philosophy" train. it might be the chemist in us (ha! you know that degree you plowed through and hated enough to forget about? well it didn't forget about you!), but there's a lot to be said for "well this is what is written, hence this is what IS ( ... )