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To: LibertyWoman

Exactly:

“If we are not bound by what the Constitution means and it is ever changing, then we are no different than the country that my parents fled from, which is Cuba. Because Cuba has a constitution and a bill of rights and it means nothing,” Lagoa said during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Because there is no one to hold it and to say this is what the definition of this constitution means if it is always ever changing.”
She added: “The principles that were articulated in the (US) Constitution at the time of ratification have a meaning — that meaning is constant. What changes is the application of that meaning to new things.”


119 posted on 09/25/2020 7:06:36 PM PDT by ReelectTrump2020
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To: ReelectTrump2020

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Eddie01


121 posted on 09/25/2020 7:17:02 PM PDT by Eddie01
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