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  Is the Constitution a "living document"? (search mode)
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Question: Is the Constitution a "living document"?
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WillK
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« on: March 09, 2010, 05:27:53 PM »
Yes, for 2 reasons:

1) Its amendable -- this allows it to evolve over time by adding or removing portions of it.

2) Its interpretable  -- its language is broad in many places such that a range of actions can fit under its terms.  For example, what precisely does it entail to  "provide for the common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States"?  This is a changing concept.
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WillK
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 10:55:44 PM »
Quote from: Governor Morgan Brykein on March 09, 2010, 05:41:45 PM

Interpretation of the Constitution has only been used to back up a certain political agenda.

True.  So what?
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