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I don't appreciate your tone. You are jumping to conclusions about my opinions on a complicated and controversial matter.

>But I also don't think that each generation gets to re-do the constitution in the image of their own principles.

I never said that. But every generation does have that power, because all other generations are dead and don't get to make amendments anymore. I don't know what it is about what I've said that makes you think I would support some _other_ means of modifying the constitution.

Those who are alive have all the power. I don't see what is so objectionable about that; it's one of the great benefits of not being a corpse.



Ah, I see. Then, yes, I did misinterpret what you said. My apologies.

(In case you can't tell, I'm not a fan of the "it's a living document, it means whatever we want it to mean" school of constitutional interpretation.)


I'm not a fan either, but in a sense we have no choice. We can't ask older generations what they meant, we can only hope that their values were passed on effectively. And where they aren't, we do not share those values and so shouldn't be constrained by them.

I don't think we should be reinterpreting the law to suit whatever goal we currently want. That kind of behavior is essentially corruption. We should be rewriting the laws to say explicitly what we want, why we want it, and how important it is to us.




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