Sam Cree: "Hope for the best on that one."
"Hope" isn't enough. We must make sure we get rid of anyone in high power who believes that the Constitution is a "living document". That means that they are a threat to our freedoms since they don't believe that it was only put into place to guard absolute [self-evident] truth.
It is a meaningless document otherwise.
"Hope" isn't enough. We must make sure we get rid of anyone in high power who believes that the Constitution is a "living document."
Yeah, I do agree...I was just making a pessimistic remark with the "hope for the best" line, since I see some fairly strong erosion of the Constitutional principles.
You are dead on, IMO, concerning the implications of the Constitution being a "living, breathing" document. If it were, it would mean that our country is ruled by the arbitrary commands of men, rather than by laws, in the face of which we are all equal.
Anyhow, I think that those who assert that the Constitution is "living" mean only that they wish to ignore it.