I read a book by a progressive professor (forget his name) titled "On What the Constitution Really Means". He, and the people destroying the Constitution in the courts, begin the decimation of the Constitution with the words "More Perfect Union". They theorized and apparently courts have bought into that what we view as perfect must be evolving since we have more experience and history every day, the framers must have known this and that is the very reason they wrote "more Perfect". This sets up the entire evolving Constitution theory.
He ignores the very real and plausible reason for the words "more perfect" being placed in the preamble probably being they were in fact replacing the "less perfect" Articles of Confederation.
>> They theorized and apparently courts have bought into that what we view as perfect must be evolving since we have more experience and history every day, the framers must have known this and that is the very reason they wrote “more Perfect”. This sets up the entire evolving Constitution theory. >>
But I don’t buy that meaning of “more perfect” at all (and I’m not sure you do, I realize you were quoting a book here). To me “more perfect” was a jab at the feckless attempts at utopian societies - man’s attempts to make a perfect union. And BTW, “more perfect” refers to “the union” and NOT to the Constitution per se.