The Constitution is set in stone on this issue.
This will stick in the craw of those “li ing document” jehus, and I am quite satisfied with the SCOTUS.
The Constitution doesn't say this.
The Constitution is set in stone on this issue.
The Founding Fathers were very adamant that the Constitution is not set in stone but intentionally called it a “Living Document”. Meaning the Founding Fathers knew that there would be circumstances they could not foresee and therefore knew the Constitution must be allowed to be altered when necessary. Otherwise you wouldn’t have any Bill of Rights. It is something that came up during the ratification of the US Constitution by more than one founding state. At the time, Virginia was one state that even made recommendations on changes they would like to see in the Constitution before ratifying it.
The US Constitution is not “set law” nor is it “set in stone”. It lives and breathes freedom and justice. That being said even the US Constitution tells us that their are certain things beyond its very nature that are “set in stone” and can never be changed. These are the unalienable rights that God gave to man. The authors agreed these were not theirs to give but theirs to be protected in the US Constitution. In other words, the Constitution can and has been changed. Every single word in it can be abrogated except any right and duty that is deemed to be unalienable by the original authors.
“Settled law” is not law “set in stone” it just means that all agree on the interpretation of the law. And even today there is consternation on the interpretation of various parts of the Constitution which was documented and attempted to be explained in the Federalist Papers written by the authors of the Constitution. One could honestly say parts of the US Constitution is not “settled law”. But no where in the Constitution (except maybe unalienable rights, as these were cast in stone long before the Constitution was framed) is its words “set in stone” thus the reason it has become a “living” document. Civics 101 people!