A “living constitution” is the same thing as having no constitution at all.
A living constitution is the same as no constitution, because that puts us in Alice in Wonderland territory. Liberal judges make things up as they go along. To them, the constitution means whatever liberal theology of the moment says it means.
We’ve seen how they have forced homosexual marriage on us with no legal basis for doing so, based on liberal interpretations of the constitution. Maybe they will find a constitutional right to impose cap and trade so we can fight global warming. That’s the problem with the liberals, that they make it up as they go along.
I ask anyone that spouts that “living constitution” garbage whether they’d sign on to a “living contract” with any workman, with the understanding that he can change the terms and definitions on a whim to suit his present inclinations.
The whole argument that the US Constitution being a “living constitution” is historically ignorant. Englishmen in the 18th Century — both at home and in the colonies — often spoke and wrote about the English Constitution. It’s true that the English had the Magna Carta, but the English Constitution to which they referred was largely unwritten and much more expansive than what King John agreed to at Runnymede. The English Constitution was, in fact, living, and empowered His Majesty’s Government to usurp what Americans believed to be their natural rights as well as the rights of Englishmen guaranteed by the English Constitution. The Founders believed that they had just cause to rebel for just that reason. It is no mere accident of history that the Americans wanted the fixity that only a written Constitution could offer.
The US Constitution was a great experiment in limited government. Unfortunately, it has failed, and every limitation on the scope of government in its text is in fact a dead letter. The real US constitution (lower case “c”) is a living constitution, and every growth you see is a cancer.
You are correct about the living constitution. Ironically any research study on literature MUST be done through historical context. Taught in every lit 1 class in the US. Not applicable to the US Constitution or the Bible.