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To: loveliberty2
Here, he highlights the only valid means by which that Constitution can be amended, as laid out in Article V's specifications.

Actually, that isn't completely true. There is also "A Convention for Proposing Amendments...as Part of This Constitution".

12 posted on 02/04/2010 10:00:07 AM PST by Publius
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To: Publius
Thanks. You are correct, of course. My underlining included his entire comment, while I was intending to respond solely to the phrase which said, "the seeds of reformation are sown in the work itself."

We know, of course, that the "living Constitution" school has ignored the provisions of the document itself.

At a seminar some years ago, I heard a constitutional law professor respond to a question about amending the constitution by praising the role of the courts and judicial activists in bringing about changes, saying, "We've had what amounts to a 'sitting' convention."

That's not what the Founders intended as we know.

13 posted on 02/04/2010 10:23:00 AM PST by loveliberty2
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