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but it is about the most eloquent and well reasoned statement on the nature of the constitution that I have heard.

That is EXACTLY the reasoning people use to justify court decisions that are far far from the framers intent. That is the view point spouted by the liberal left the justify all kinds of things. If you really thing that about the constitution you may have stumbled into freerepublic by accident because that is the farthest thing from conservatism.

From NRO today on this topic:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/

Huckabee and the Living Constitution [Shannen Coffin]

A friend brought to my attention an interview that Mike Huckabee did with CNN this morning, which is currently available on his website. In the interview, Huckabee calls the Constitution a “living, breathing document,” a phrase that should send shudders down the spine of any conservative concerned about the Supreme Court.

But if you watch the entire interview, it appears as if Huckabee is more clueless when it comes to the Constitution than he is dangerous. He used the phrase in explaining his comments this week that we need to amend the Constitution to please the Almighty (I’m paraphrasing a bit there, I realize). In that context, he explained that the Constitution is intended to be amended through the constitutional process, a correct observation. But in describing that amendment process, he said that the Constitution is a “living breathing document written in order that it could be changed.”

Now I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I prefer to think of the Constitution as a “dead document,” as Justice Scalia describes it. Huckabee’s comments raise questions about whether he understands the Constitution at all, and whether he could be trusted to appoint judges who understand their limited role in our government of separated powers.

01/18 12:46 PM

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Re: Huckabee and the Constitution [Andy McCarthy]

Ramesh, I think, regardless of what Huckabee has said about judges, Shannen is quite right to be concerned given that it was only a couple of days ago that the Governor told us: “I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it [sic] lines up with some contemporary view.” I’m sure he has an explanation for that one, too — he seems never to be short on either explanations or comments that need to be explained.

01/18 02:18 PM

You are referring to the liberal support of judicial activism. That is NOT what Huckabee is talking about here. Get a clue.