Who is interested in a Constitutional Forum or group on GD?

[MineralMan]

5. Discussion of Constitutional issues is difficult on DU

and elsewhere. The problem is that most people don't actually know the Constitution well as a document, and even fewer have information on the many, many SCOTUS decisions that have interpreted it.

That means that most discussions about the Constitution are marked by lots of uninformed opinions. I try to avoid Constitutional discussions on DU for that reason.

Sadly, for a founding document that is really quite simple in its composition, it has required constant interpretation by the SCOTUS, and people still don't agree on what it means in many cases. Add to that the dismal lack of knowledge about what is actually written in our Constitution and such discussions usually deteriorate into blather.

It's too bad, too.