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JerryArkansas
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« on: July 01, 2015, 11:04:56 AM »
« edited: July 01, 2015, 11:15:30 AM by JerryArkansas »

When you compare lack of gay marriage on demand to school desegregation, all credibility is lost.

The 14th Amendment was written in the 1860s to protect blacks from slavery and was co-opted by court to confer a right that never existed.

Just like how the 2nd Amendment was written in the 1790's to protect the state's right to a militia and was co-opted by the right to confer a right that never existed*.

When we as a country have something called a living constitution, you are able to adapt the meaning of the words to your time.  This is what our founding father's wanted.  They wanted us to bend and twist the document.  They wanted us to think different from them.  They didn't want us to live by the rules of their time.

*(When I say this, I mean Automatic weapons, not handguns, or shotguns.)
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JerryArkansas
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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2015, 12:58:23 PM »
« Edited: July 01, 2015, 01:00:00 PM by JerryArkansas »

It was, but, I still believe what I believe.  A living document is something which helps with the times.  How can the rules of men who lived over 200 years ago still apply to us without a bit twisting.  We have so many things that they wouldn't have know about.  Without the notion of a living document, it's hard to apply the laws, and write them.  Social Security and Medicare, are they mentioned in the constitution.  No, but with some interpretation, you can find the rational for them. 
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2015, 01:03:07 PM »

Another example that I forgot to post above is Jefferson buying lands in Louisiana.  The constitution says nothing of buying land.  But he used the right to govern territory to defend his purchase of it.
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