[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]
(Scale of Justice Photograph)
Scale of Justice Carrying Putto (Triumph of the Republic); (Wikimedia Commons, 2009, Sculpture: Aimé-Jules Dalou; photo: Teofilo); Companion haiku: The constitutions based on Timeless Principles not changing concepts.
Is our Government
Based on Timeless Principle
Or changing values?
Is our Government
Based on Timeless Principle
Or temporal thought?
Is our Government
Based on Timeless Principle
Or human judgment?
[Rich Note: Normally stay away from politics (as just another expression of the “Warm Gooey-Sharp Prickly” dichotomy Alan Watts once suggested), but a Sunday newspaper article about Supreme Court Justice Beyer’s advocating application of what he called the Constitution’s "fundamental values" to "new and changing circumstances" evoked a “letter to the editor-like response” that will follow.]
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