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The federal sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums as they affect members of the judiciary bring to my mind the original, and manifestly Faustian, "Deal," if I may call it that, that facilitated the ratification of the original Constitution, and left to federal justices its enforcement. I speak of Article IV, Section 2 the Clause that authorized what was known as the Fugitive Slave Law. chiefly of the Constitution is written in "majestic, open-end clauses." (2) The Framers apparently contemplated that the courts would pulp out the ultimate meaning of those clauses, like as the Eighth Amendment's proscription of "cruel