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To: LindyBill who wrote (121999)	6/26/2005 11:37:52 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793955

LB, there was a discussion here some months ago about the meaning of the term "constructionist" as applied to Supreme Court nominees. I found these sentences from your post definitive enough for me: The job of a Justice is to try to figure out what the Constitution and its Amendments meant to their framers, taking account of the history of the times and the great principles of Republican government that the framers believed they were implementing. The law and the Constitution must change, of course, but in order for us to continue to receive the benefits of the rule of law and popular sovereignty which the framers desired, those changes ought to come from legislatures and from Constitutional Amendments by the people's representatives, not their judges.