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Again, I think you go too far. Words have meaning, sentences have meaning, paragraphs have meaning, documents have meaning. But the more complex the ideas, the more room there is for interpretation. The farther we are from the time and culture of the writers the more difficult it is to grasp their intention - to put ourselves in the unstated context which made their meaning clear. The more complex the ideas the greater the chance that there are contradictions or implications which only become clear with time. The farther we are from the time and culture of the writers the greater the chance that ideas which were valid in their world are no longer valid in ours.

"The farther we are from the time and culture of the writers the more difficult it is to grasp their intention - to put ourselves in the unstated context which made their meaning clear."

We need not grasp that intention. The words of the Constitution are sufficient in and of themselves. They are good law. Moreover, any difficulties we may have understanding antiquated uses of words is easily remediable by looking to the precedents.

It has been some time but I had studied Constitutional Law and read many of the groundbreaking cases. There is a distinct break from tradition in the Warren Court. Their decisions flew in the face of precedent and their judgments are false, based on twisted interpretations of the words in the Constitution. But read for yourself the decision in Row v. Wade. Their is no conclusion possible but that they are making laws up ex nihilo.

But perhaps I shall go back this afternoon and refresh my memory by reading some of those cases. It has been several years since I read them.

"The more complex the ideas the greater the chance that there are contradictions or implications which only become clear with time."

Very true. And again I have no argument with you here. My argument is that since the Warren Court, they added a new complexity: setting new precedents which distort the meaning of words out of all context, adding new words never there, establishing entirely new meanings for words altogether.