On the DU board! Just kidding but seriously a "Living Constitution" is the view of liberals and used to take away our liberties.
And calling people here "anti-choice" well people can call you "anti-life" if you want to play the name game!
Any Constitution that lives and breathes must also die.
Exactly what the "living, breathing" crowd is hoping.
You are of course right about that, and a piercing speech about the fallacies of the Living Constitution theory was delivered on CSPAN by Judge Scalia just a few days ago. But since Scalia doesn't merit the same exposure in the media as the latest celebrity murderer, it falls to us bomb throwers to "PING" that debate back, by shoving such concepts of back into the debate. Even if by subterfuge. Bills of attainder were prohibited, so that specific individuals couldn't be punished by laws passed through Congress for that purpose. The idea was to keep Congress from playing judge and usurping the power of the judiciary. Now Congress may enact a "reverse" bill of Attainder, the "Let's not kill Schiavo" law, passed specifically so that a specific individual may be saved. This will perhaps begin the process of preventing judges from usurping the power of the Legislature and playing Congressman. Whatever returns us to being a nation of law, and not a nation of judges.