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To: lex33
Opponents of originalism, who include fellow Justice Stephen Breyer, say that the Constitution was meant to be more flexible and adaptive to the changing times.

Flexible and adaptive as defined by who?
It is a pact by the American people describing how they want their government to operate.
It is not up to the government or any of it's branches to redefine the instructions. Just follow them as written.

6 posted on 02/13/2012 9:27:38 PM PST by oldbrowser (They are Marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: oldbrowser

The Constitution is flexible and adaptive, through the Amendment process. Other than that, no it is static at any given point in time.

Moreover, it says what it means and means what it says. It drives me batty when people support the libs interpretation and have no CLUE of Jefferson’s Maxim:

“On every question of construction let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”


26 posted on 02/13/2012 11:31:49 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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To: oldbrowser

oh and by the way, you can’t maintain a Constitutional Republic in the absence of an informed and moral electorate. We are seeing the proof of this in real time.


27 posted on 02/13/2012 11:33:23 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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