Socrates wrote:
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You take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, then write laws that are contrary to the plain meaning of that document.
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If the meaning of the Constitution were always "plain," I know of nine ladies and gents (hint: they wear flowing black robes a lot) who'd be out of a job.
EricReynolds wrote:
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The important thing about the constitution that is so often overlooked is that the founding fathers were wise enough to make the law of the land flexible. Let's not forget what an ammendment is. A change or an add on we made. Times have changed. The founding fathers realized times would change and knew that they needed to make the constitution changeable.
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Good point. They also made it rather hard to do, what with needing a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states... it's only been done 27 times in over 200 years, even though hundreds, maybe thousands, of amendments have been proposed. So it's a pretty stable document. But it
isn't always clearly written.