I heard this great quote on NPR today:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, is still there."
Hmmm...that lets out a lot of stuff, doesn't it. Such as Holmes's "fighting faiths that men have died for," in which no one any longer believes.
Or Richard Feynman's "Nature cannot be fooled."
You can be fooled, but you can't fool Nature.
Nature is what's left when there's nothing else to believe
What you believe, if isn't natural, but an artifact of man, is what we call the supernatural.
If you believe in a god whose name begins with a G, J, or A, or any other letter of the alphabet for that matter, see the above.
And then see whether you can answer the question of the dream-cave: Did God invent Man, or Man invent God?
What does this have to do with Con-Law? Not much, maybe everything, for Con-Law is supposed to be rational. You can argue about what is rational, but not about what is not rational. Laws have to be based in reason, otherwise they're in foul territory and apt to be declared unconstitutional. We call this the rational basis test, where the only scrutiny given is whether the law in question is supported by reason and real facts, not imaginary or self-contradictory alleged facts.