Since the Constitution has been around for 224 years a great many rumors have been spread about it by politicians who would like to ignore it. Here is just one.
Quoted from The Heritage Foundation:
- The Constitution’s meaning evolves with the times: To the extent that the American left praises the Framers, it is because they “wisely left the Constitution open to generations of reinterpretation.” The left presumes that the Constitution can address today’s questions only if its meaning evolves.
The Constitution means the same thing today as it did two hundred years ago: a republican framework of government that addresses the political questions of the day, whatever these questions may be. The Constitution’s words have a fixed meaning: they do not support perpetual reinterpretation. As former Attorney General Edwin Meese III explains, our written Constitution merits a particular interpretive approach: “where the language of the Constitution is specific, it must be obeyed. Where there is demonstrable consensus among the Founders and ratifiers as to a principle stated or implied in the Constitution, it should be followed. Where there is ambiguity as to the precise meaning or reach of a constitutional provision, it should be interpreted and applied in a manner so as to at least not contradict the text of the Constitution itself.”
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Liberals want to leave the Constitution wholly up to pure interpretation because they view the document, and rightly so, as a roadbloack to the growth of government over personal Liberty. Leaving the Constitution open to mean whatever the whims of some unelected federal judge declares it to mean is to actually say we have no Constitution. If the document means whatever a tyrant wants it to mean, then we are a nation of men, not laws.
Amen!