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erpowers

(9,350 posts)
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 10:49 PM Feb 2016

If The Constitution Is Not a Living Breathing Document

If the founding fathers did not want the Constitution to be a living breathing document why did they allow for it to be amended. If the men who wrote the original document put forth a way for it to be amended that seems to show they wanted it to be a living breathing document. I assume those men realized the world would change in some way and thought there needed to be a way to meet those changes. Article V of the Constitution says in part, "The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution".

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If The Constitution Is Not a Living Breathing Document (Original Post) erpowers Feb 2016 OP
Look, if it were a 'living breathing' document, the Founders would have made it a corporation. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #1

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Look, if it were a 'living breathing' document, the Founders would have made it a corporation.
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 10:53 PM
Feb 2016

Cause we all know that corporations are people too, friend.

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