[exmarine]

I say that most of the justices on today's SCOTUS aren't fit to be judges. They rule based on fiat like the POLITBURO. They are turning America into an oligarchy - or worse. They make a rulings that conform to their ideology (don't try to say they don't) and not the intent of the framers. If the Constitution is a living breathing document subject to change according to social and ideological norms, as I believe at least 5 of the 9 justices believe, then so your God-given rights are also subject to change by the POLITBURO. One cannot logically maintain that constitutional law is governed by changing social/cultural norms and simultaneously hold to any unchanging absolute moral principles.

[lugsoul]

"If the Constitution is a living breathing document subject to change according to social and ideological norms, as I believe at least 5 of the 9 justices believe, then so your God-given rights are also subject to change by the POLITBURO. One cannot logically maintain that constitutional law is governed by changing social/cultural norms and simultaneously hold to any unchanging absolute moral principles."

Is the holding of slaves as property an unchanging absolute moral principle? Or did the Supreme Court have the right and obligation to change this after the passage of time?

[Catspaw]

One cannot logically maintain that constitutional law is governed by changing social/cultural norms and simultaneously hold to any unchanging absolute moral principles.

Are you talking about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (added on later, as you know), and/or Amendments 11-27--or do you have a cut-off at some point, say at 11 or 12?