[Yardstick]

suggesting that they alone understand the true meaning of a text that the founders wisely left open to generations of reinterpretation.

On the one hand this sounds all loosey-goosey and liberating and stuff, but OTOH liberals still fight tooth and nail to get their people on the courts so that they can force their understanding of the text down the rest of our throats.

[BuckeyeTexan]

It's not their understanding of the Constitution for which they fight; it's their interpretation of it. The former requires a willingness to accept the Constitution for what it is and says. The latter requires intentional misdirection.