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The academics would keep cavilling, but the public kept buying.
In June of last year, Time magazine published an article called " Twilight of the Boomers " in which Daniel Okrent described the boomers as preening, self-congratulatory, cavilling solipsists.
He answers by saying that the clause is included " to guard against all cavilling refinements in those who might hereafter feel the disposition to curtail and evade the legitimate authorities of the Union, " in other words, to guard against those who would seek to evade the authority of the Union by an overly literal interpretation of the constitution.