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Question: Is the Constitution a "living document"?
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Junior Chimp
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« on: March 09, 2010, 02:45:16 AM »

It's neither living nor inert. But it is the height of stupidity to chain one's self to a two-and-a-half -century-old document. This is the same stupid mistake that religious fundamentalists make: reading into something a metaphysical meaning that exists outside of physical reality. From my perspective, I find it a mostly-objectionable document that, save for a very few elements (and these mostly in the Bill of Rights), ought to be scrapped.
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2010, 03:21:57 AM »

No, but it can be changed; however, it shouldn't change without the people making it change.

There ought to be a far easier mechanism to change the Constitution than presently exists. The Amendment process is horribly convoluted, and if it were streamlined then this issue would be entirely moot.
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