As reported in last week’s CVN, “local government specialists” see no issue with our Mayor attending assembly meetings by teleconference and voting when needed. Their advice: “Since the specific situation wasn’t in code…the situation is permissible.” Interpretational methodology in the Constitution argues strongly to the contrary.
In his lecture series, constitutional law scholar Burt Neuborne argues the ninth and tenth amendments provide an operations manual for interpreting constitutional text. The ninth states citizens possess more…