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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?
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That's not what people mean when the term "living document" is spoken. It's now taken by leftists to mean that the Constitution can be interpreted differently according to new ideas. Leftists now use the courts to reinterpret what the founders words might be if the founders lived today and use liberal courts to enforce this new interpretation.
This is why the Amendment process is all but obsolete in our country. If only the Constitution was changed with the Amendment process we wouldn't be having these arguments......if only.