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mrplunkey
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Is too!
I just think if you want to change the document to account for changing times, then make a law or amend the document!
Neener-neener, btw!
Does anyone know how to plot Fourier series coefficent expansions in Maple?
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Is too!
I just think if you want to change the document to account for changing times, then make a law or amend the document!
Neener-neener, btw!
You read enough SCOTUS opinions and you see that the "originalists" do the same slithering and squirming and twisting and tweaking that the "living document" justices do.
The Constitution is vague in a lot of areas - there isn't a way to interpret it without filling in some blanks. Despite what he says on 60 Minutes and in Federalist Society luncheons, Scalia does it too.
And when you make amendments that sometimes makes parts of the original document even more vague. And that leads to all sorts of fun jurisprudence.
mrplunkey
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That's why I wish the Supreme Court always had an option "C" on every verdict. Option "C" would mean: "It's not our job to make new laws based on your inability to be specific. Get this shit right with a law or amendment and get it out of this branch of government."
They do that all the time. They say "No, this is not unconstitutional. If you want more protections put them into your state laws."
But not everything is that simple.
mrplunkey
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They need to do that a lot more!
Great, my e-flirt thread has been hijacked by something I know nothing about.
I've ranted at you about this stuff enough times for you to have picked up a few things.
Their main purpose is to decide if laws are constitutional. You know, checks and balances and all that. They can't just say "How the fuck should we know? You go figure it out." Kind of defeats the point.
mrplunkey
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Great, my e-flirt thread has been hijacked by something I know nothing about.
You haven't seen anything yet!
I'm gonna turn the corner here in a second and start talking physics. Engineers (good ones, at least) pay homage to their roots in the basic sciences. Fear my e-game!!!
