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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1541)	1/19/2001 3:47:09 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

If people want no limits on government there will be no limits. If people want tyranny and oppression that is what we will have. This is true but the constitution still provides some brake on expantion of the government. This brake has been very weak at least since FDR but it still has some use. If enough people (or people with enough power) want to ignore it it will become useless. It is not some magic talisman that can ward off tryanny and opression when people don't care but for not it still is not completly impotent. The law is words- and contrary to what Ebill seems to be arguing words are open to interpretation, because we all think differently. Words are open to iterpretation, but they do have actual meanings. Sometimes those meanings are fairly clear. (I will grant there are also many cases where they are not). The battle is not just over the interpretation of the words but wheather they they should even be payed any attention at all. The point of view that the constitution is a "living document" and that it words mean (like Humpty Dumpty's) anything they want them to mean, is not a rare one. Tim