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To: ProgressingAmerica

I believe it was Judge Scalia who remarked: “The Constitution is an enduring document, not a living one”.

I believe he is correct.


7 posted on 04/18/2015 11:10:49 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
I believe it was Judge Scalia who remarked: “The Constitution is an enduring document, not a living one”.

He also gave full-throated endorsement to Wickard and then some in Raich =>

Where necessary to make a regulation of interstate commerce effective, Congress may regulate even those intrastate activities that do not themselves substantially affect interstate commerce.

Scalia the Elastic, concurring in Raich

8 posted on 04/18/2015 11:26:18 AM PDT by Ken H
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