-Caveat Lector-
Bob
Hogwash. Bush and the reactionaries want to enshrine
the Constitution, to cast it in stone, to worship it as Holy Writ.
The problem with that is that it was never intended to be seen
that way.
MJ
Really?
Bob
Gore is exactly correct. The Constitution is *designed* to
be changed as times change. The original document was
perfect...for 1787. But more than two centuries have passed
since then. "No one puts new wine in old wineskins."
MJ
There is NOTHING about wineskins in the Constitution ... but
there is a method for change which is CLEARLY outlined in
Article V. NOWHERE within the Constitution is there Power
provided to INVENT new meanings.
Bob
Think back to your sixth grade civics class: the metaphor
those horrible civics textbooks always used was that of a
tree in a storm--if the tree is stiff and rigid, when the wind
hits the tree falls down, but if it's supple and flexible, when
the wind hits the tree bends and survives.
MJ
False analogy
Bob
Bush and the rest of the Reaganite reactionaries want
essentially to repeal the last 125 years of constitutional
law.
MJ
While I doubt that Dubya has *any* such goal ... have you
read the platform? ... it is to repeal the last 125 plus years
of UNCONSTITUTIONAL law.
Bob
If attitude to the Constitution is the most important criterion
for judging a presidential candidate, Gore is the one who
passes, and Bush flunks ignominiously.
MJ
BOTH fail miserably.
If the Constitution does NOT mean what it plainly states, then
it is completely meaningless.
Regard$,
--MJ
If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of
the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected
by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let
there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may
be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free
governments are destroyed.
-- President George Washington, farewell address, September 19, 1796.The
Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 35, p. 229 (1940).
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