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To: greatvikingone
Ben Franklin believed in a living Constitution and Thomas Jefferson assumed it would be drastically changed over time.

I think that's reasonable as long as the changes are made via the amendment process or a Constitutional convention, with the full knowledge and approval of a majority of the citizens. I'm not OK with members of the federal judiciary inventing their own revisions to the Constitution in courtrooms.
10 posted on 07/16/2014 10:08:44 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“I think that’s reasonable as long as the changes are made via the amendment process or a Constitutional convention, with the full knowledge and approval of a majority of the citizens. I’m not OK with members of the federal judiciary inventing their own revisions to the Constitution in courtrooms.”

I agree, to a certain extent. I do believe the bulk of the Constitution is the best possible ideology available to sinful man, and I think today’s populace is so ignorant and so self-serving that I don’t trust them to deviate an iota from the Founder’s wisdom on the things that could be improved.


11 posted on 07/16/2014 10:16:01 AM PDT by greatvikingone
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