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To: inquest
"that there is a true meaning to each of the parts of the Constitution."

No, there is not. The meaning is interpreted as times change, as technology changes.

Free speech includes nude dancing? Now who would have thought?

There is a right to privacy that allows a woman to murder her baby?

List for me all the rights covered by the 9th amendment. List for me all the state powers covered by the 10th. Define an "unreasonable search" or an "excessive bail", or a "speedy trial", or "keep and bear arms".

The founders didn't know the true meaning, yet you do? Or someone does? Who?

609 posted on 08/08/2004 1:30:07 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
inquest wrote: "that there is a true meaning to each of the parts of the Constitution."

No, there is not. The meaning is interpreted as times change, as technology changes.
Free speech includes nude dancing? Now who would have thought?
There is a right to privacy that allows a woman to murder her baby?
List for me all the rights covered by the 9th amendment.
List for me all the state powers covered by the 10th.
Define an "unreasonable search" or an "excessive bail", or a "speedy trial", or "keep and bear arms".
The founders didn't know the true meaning, yet you do? Or someone does? Who?

Reasonable men know & can see the true meaning of our Constitution, paulsen..
Your sophomoric questions show that you are incapable.

616 posted on 08/08/2004 3:25:47 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
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To: robertpaulsen
The meaning is interpreted as times change, as technology changes.

That doesn't mean the interpretation is correct.

Free speech includes nude dancing?

No, despite the fact that someone's interpreted it to mean that. The meaning of free speech hasn't changed.

You're making a circular argument that amounts to the proposition that a court ruling, by definition, can't be wrong. If you're going to make that assumption, then there's nothing you can do to "prove" or "disprove" it. It's just an assumption.

The founders didn't know the true meaning

No, they knew what they were writing.

620 posted on 08/09/2004 6:56:20 AM PDT by inquest (Judges are given the power to decide cases, not to decide law)
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