[October 2005 journal entry]
With two seats on the Supreme Court being vacated in recent months, there has been considerable public discussion either about or based upon assumptions re the underpinnings of the United States Constitution (as amended, which point implies something substantive about the initial draft). I have been thinking specifically about such underlying assumptions as various approaches to epistemology, ontology, ethics, religion, science, political theory, international ‘community’, the environment, . . . . A spectrum re perceptions and methods for interpreting the United States Constitution can be constructed parallel to a spectrum for doing theology, with each spectrum having a threshold separating more fundamentalist/evangelical from more liberal perceptions and methods.