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To: BillGunn

>> 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.


45 posted on 10/27/2011 9:09:53 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

with you 100%


47 posted on 10/27/2011 9:39:35 AM PDT by BillGunn (Bill Gunn for Congress district one rep. Massachusetts)
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