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To: KarlInOhio

Would you want to play poker with someone who stated that the rules were “living”?

If we have a “living” Constitution, we have no Constitution.

It’s a contract with an amendment process.


17 posted on 05/02/2007 2:15:03 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: MrB

“It’s a contract with an amendment process.”

I like that. Scalia himself said once the constitution is “an enduring document” as opposed to a “living constitution”. How is it though, that the politicians of the day (however ill advisedly) realized they needed to pass a constitutional amendment “prohibition” to outlaw booze, but there are scant few amendments since that time regulating toilets or light bulbs?


55 posted on 05/02/2007 6:51:32 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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