Originally Posted by buggyone

Richie, my good drinking buddy, your viewpoint of a living and evolving Constitution is certainly your viewpoint - however, it is definitely not what the term means. You are welcome to take the uber-conservative view to say a living constitutution means only interpretation by a court. However, just saying so does not make it so. We have to look at what is really meant by the term. The amendment process is what makes the Constitution a living and evolving document.

However, once again, it is always in the conservative view as to whose ox is being gored. The Republicans were jumping right in to have a federal court declare The Affordable Health Care Act unconstitutional. Isn't that interpreting the Constitution to your own way? I thought it was a liberal thing to do according to your post. "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."

That, however once again, is not the meaning of the term. As we both know, the amendment process is a long process and takes sometimes years to do. That is why we have only 27 amendments in over 200 years.

The Republicans now want to add more amendments to trump states rights. A constitutional amendment to define marriage between one man and one woman would take away the state rights of each state. The "marriages" that are in place now would be rendered null and void according to Santorum. WRONG on two counts. It would be a prime example of an ex post facto law and trampling on the 10th Amendment.

You planning to be at the watering hole tomorrow night?

Originally Posted by djplong

This is one place where I agree 100% with Richie.

You want to change the meaning of something in the Costitution? We have an app for that - it's called the Ammendment Process!