>
> Finally, the Constitution IS a living document.  The example I gave  
> in a previous message--the expansion of the franchise from white  
> property-owners to a more inclusive body--is the ultimate example.

Justice Scalia would disagree, and has. He was quoted a few months  
back--in a speech, not in a legal brief (and no, I don't have the  
particulars, but it made the news)--as saying that the Constitution  
is a legal document, just like the deed to your house. How would you  
like the deed to your house to be a "living document" subject to re- 
interpretation every few generations? Wonder what would happen to  
legal chain of title? His example, not mine.

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Donald W. Moore
Virginia Beach, Virginia


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