It's okay: you can have the last word, if you like. I deserve to lose it, for succumbing to the temptation to expand the argument to include personalities.

Congratulations; you win this one. Don't get used to it, though.

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain--that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." --Lysander Spooner, 1867