Based on what evidence do you say that? I'm simply noting that the Amendments reflected that the Founders knew their document should be revised. When I go to Church and listen to an hour of someone ranting about how someone was the most evil President ever in the USA's history for merely changing the Constitution you can damn well expect me to be irritated at conservative insistence that changing the Constitution in and of itself is always and forever evil.
If the men of the 18th Century knew the Constitution might need to be changed for the future, why are we in the present expected to adhere to its rigid letter when they both devised it to change and ignored it 90% of the time themselves? Your insistence in focusing on rhetoric and thereby evading the point is of course expected, but then again......it's not exactly easy to note that people can change the Constitution legally and to square this with the GOP's cult-like mentality to the text in question.
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Date: 8/11/12 15:36 (UTC)If the men of the 18th Century knew the Constitution might need to be changed for the future, why are we in the present expected to adhere to its rigid letter when they both devised it to change and ignored it 90% of the time themselves? Your insistence in focusing on rhetoric and thereby evading the point is of course expected, but then again......it's not exactly easy to note that people can change the Constitution legally and to square this with the GOP's cult-like mentality to the text in question.