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To: Joseph S. Lione who wrote (101053)3/19/2000 1:50:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
OT - Constitution

I would like to post a clarification since someone else is continuing the discussion.

nihil said that I agreed that the Supreme Court justices decide what the government is allowed to do. I absolutely do not. While this may be true when the bench is packed with Judicial Activists, this is not their task. Rather, their task is to rule on what the Constitution says the government is allowed to do.

There is a subtle but extremely important difference here. After all, if the Constitution was intended to be this extremely flexible document that only meant whatever the justices and politicians wanted it to mean then there'd be no need for a complicated and difficult method of amending it. The height of the bar that an amendment has to clear in order to pass is a clear indication of how serious an undertaking the framers considered changing the Constitution's meaning was.
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