re: #149 GeneJockey

Right. It’s not fucking Holy Writ! It’s the second attempt to set up a working system of self-government, without a lot of examples to study. It was set up by wealthy white male landowners largely for the benefit of their kind of people, because they felt their kind of people should be in charge.

But more importantly, worship of the document and the insistence that it be interpreted precisely as The Founders saw things ignores the whole point of self-governance: The people ARE the government, and it is what we want it to be.

By setting up the idea that the Constitution must be interpreted precisely as the Founding Fathers would have does nothing less than create the rule of those long dead. Society would quickly become static and moribund; such a society would certainly not be a good one to live in.