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To: PG_JD who wrote (75)	8/28/1999 6:39:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 1449

...it is a living, breathing, evolving piece of paper. If that is true, why don't we just tear it up and start all over? Hmmm... maybe we're already doing that. Sign on the desk of Clarence Thomas: Please Don't Emanate On the Penumbras.

To: PG_JD who wrote (75)	8/28/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: c.horn	Respond to of 1449

There are different scholarly views on the Constitution and the amendments. I am in the camp that is is an living, breathing, evolving piece of paper. I do not want to sound insulting sir, but that is what's wrong with todays Liberals. To say that The Constitution is a living piece of paper is to say it is worthless!! How would you like to play in a living poker game with me?? Where my 2 pair could all of a sudden beat your full house. Doesn't sound pleasant does it. The same logic applies here... I'm in the camp that believes: The reason we still have 1st Amendment rights is solely because of our 2nd Amendment rights. C

To: PG_JD who wrote (75)	8/29/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 1449

<<I will say this: I do feel that it is not a right that only extends to members of a well regulated militia. It seems to me, Hamilton indicates this in Federalist No.29. There are different scholarly views on the Constitution and the amendments. I am in the camp that is is an living, breathing, evolving piece of paper.>> Let's return to the words of those who started the dream, the experiment: Quotes from Thomas Jefferson "On every question of construction [of the Constitution], let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322. "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950) If you want something different, it must be directly changed, all of it. How far will you get?