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To: OXENinFLA

I have a question, just in general:

If the left always claims that the Constitution is "a living document," why are they so worried that a judge may vote to overturn a previous ruling?

Is it a living document or not?


2,058 posted on 01/11/2006 12:02:52 PM PST by craig_eddy
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To: craig_eddy

Excellent point. It's only living when they are in charge, and only the parts that they want.


2,067 posted on 01/11/2006 12:03:59 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: craig_eddy

Too logical a question.


2,079 posted on 01/11/2006 12:04:54 PM PST by King David (SCOTUS.... it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: craig_eddy
If the left always claims that the Constitution is "a living document," why are they so worried that a judge may vote to overturn a previous ruling?

Excellent question.

2,081 posted on 01/11/2006 12:05:22 PM PST by syriacus (Chuck Schumer is outclassed intellectually by Bush's judicial nominees.)
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To: craig_eddy

I have a question, just in general:

If the left always claims that the Constitution is "a living document," why are they so worried that a judge may vote to overturn a previous ruling?

Is it a living document or not?



EXCELLENT QUESTION!


2,636 posted on 01/11/2006 1:54:35 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Over THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE lost their 'civil liberties' on September 11, 2001.)
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To: craig_eddy

If the left always claims that the Constitution is "a living document," why are they so worried that a judge may vote to overturn a previous ruling?
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The more clever lefties would say it doesn't just "live", it "progresses"...thus the ridiculous phrase "turning back the clock on rights". A movement toward constutionalism would, in their eyes, be regression, not progressive "life".
Of course, there is no basis for their claim.


2,677 posted on 01/11/2006 2:00:13 PM PST by dinoparty (In the beginning was the Word)
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