To: steve harris who wrote (396502 ) 7/7/2008 2:56:47 AM From: Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) | Respond to Steve, remember how Al Gore claimed that the Constitution is a "living, breathing document"?pbs.org Now, Jim, you know better than that. I have said I wouldn't support -- you can't even quit from smiling there -- you know this stuff so well. I'm not going to have a litmus test for a Supreme Court nomination if I have the privilege of making appointments to the Supreme Court, but I will insist upon justices who have an interpretation of the Constitution that's in keeping with the general philosophical approach that I share. living and breathing document and that there are liberties found in the Constitution such as the right to privacy that spring from the document, itself, even though the Founders didn't write specific words saying this, this, and this, because we have interpreted our founding charter over the years and found deeper meanings in it, in light of the subsequent experience in American life of the last 211 years of our republic, and a strict constructionist, narrow-minded, harkening back to a literalist reading from 200 years ago, I think that's -- I think that's a mistake. And I would certainly not want to appoint any justices that took that approach.
