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To: Native American Female Vet
Breyer said judges should be wary of enforcing a strict reading of the Constitution because the men who wrote the document left many important areas open to interpretation.

There is some validity to this argument, but they probably meant for the interpretations to be derived from something actually written in the Constitution. For example, the Roe v. Wade ruling somehow found medical terminology for deriving a time table for when a fetus could or could not be aborted--something that clearly went beyond interpreting Constitutional text.

10 posted on 10/22/2001 7:10:49 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat
Any judge who isn't a "strict constructionist" is something close to a traitor.
11 posted on 10/22/2001 7:13:57 PM PDT by Anotherpundit
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