Spivey,
How can you ascribe yourself as a Democrat,when you hold none of the beliefs ,platforms or aspirations of the Semocratic party,perhaps you should describe yourself as a democrat (small d intended). Now my question to you is ,"If the US Constitution says" all men are created equal", then how could the US Supreme Court in the D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford

My point is the Supreme Court has never been this mythological place where the law is decided objectively.More important than the legal arguments as faulty as they were are the surrounding political realities they lest of which is the intereference with the court by President Buchanan.Read the comments by commentators at the time.