Originally Posted by buggyone

Is it TeaParty jingoism or just general ignorance that the US Constitution is not a living and evolving document?

It lives and evolves with each amendment that is added and this has been done 27 times over 200+ years.

The writers of the Constitution did not have all the answers to future issues so the amendment process is used to add on (evolve) to the Constitution.

If it were not living and evolving, we would still have slavery in the USA and women could not vote. Is that the TeaParty line?