“You KNOW how they would react to a technology that was not around at their time, and situations they didn’t face at that time?”
I’m not so sure that you are intending to tout the left’s “the constitution is a dead document” argument, so I will just assume that it is monday and you are reacting to one single situation. (”The Rand Paul Political stunt.”)
I hold the view that the US Constitution is timeless. If the founders thought that there would never be technological advances, then they would have said, “Citizens shall be free from unreasonable search and seizure while traveling by foot or horse.”
Yet, they didn’t limit the enumerated rights to any particular technology, situations, etc. In fact, I am certain that they KNEW that there would be continual change and that their words were written to withstand the changes over time. Sadly, we have less and less people willing to stand up for their words, so we end up with the “living constitution.”
The result is that we have the Feds in every aspect of our lives, and they still want more!
Again, with respect to travel, I point to current jurisprudence, which whether we like it or not, is what controls what is and is not Constitutional. This stunt does nothing toward changing any of that.
That said, I was not touting the Constitution was a dead document line, I was responding to someone’s comments about missing x, y, z historical figures, with specific references to actual events during their lives. It’s faulty logic to ASSUME we know how anyone would react in any situation, and to say historical figure x, y, z would react this way or that in a given situation with today’s parameters is such a nonsensical debate to have as it can neither be proven nor disproven because the fact of the matter is we, as humans, think of the world as we see it today, not as our great grandchildren will see it in the future.
I cannot understand anyone here having a problem with Rand Paul, who is pretty much the embodiment of what this web site is about.
I, for one, am thankful that he is taking on the TSA and their blatantly unconstitutional actions.