Comments on: Fred on the Huckster’s Comment http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/ Politics, humor, moonbat bashing, charter member of the vast right wing conspiracy. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Don Black http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-3359 Don Black Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:33:45 +0000 http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/#comment-3359 The bottom line is that no one else seems to understand the Constitution like Fred. All the other candidates have their own left leaning interpretations. Fred has got to hang in there for the long haul. The bottom line is that no one else seems
to understand the Constitution like Fred.
All the other candidates have their own
left leaning interpretations. Fred has
got to hang in there for the long haul.

]]> By: olbroad http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-3357 olbroad Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:47:26 +0000 http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/#comment-3357 No, I don't think it has, but you'd never know it to hear a lot of the very loud and bitter folks talk. No, I don’t think it has, but you’d never know it to hear a lot of the very loud and bitter folks talk.

]]> By: Tom http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-3355 Tom Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:24:40 +0000 http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/#comment-3355 The founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, of course realized that times do, indeed, change. That is why they set a specific method to change the Connstitution. It is called amendment. They definitely did not envision some unelected judicial activist changing it to suit his/her preference. There are only two ways to change the exact wording and, hence, the meaning of the document. I do not think that this has changed in the 40 or so years since my last civics class. The founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, of course realized that times do, indeed, change. That is why they set a specific method to change the Connstitution. It is called amendment. They definitely did not envision some unelected judicial activist changing it to suit his/her preference. There are only two ways to change the exact wording and, hence, the meaning of the document. I do not think that this has changed in the 40 or so years since my last civics class.

]]> By: rosettaresearch http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/comment-page-1/#comment-3354 rosettaresearch Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:35:05 +0000 http://olbroad.com/2008/01/18/fred-on-the-hucksters-comment/#comment-3354 Letter to George Washington From Thomas Jefferson, January 4, 1786: "This...plan." I am certainly not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Not that I am a fan of judicial activism, but even the Founding Fathers intended the Constitution to grow and change with the times. Letter to George Washington From Thomas Jefferson, January 4, 1786: “This…plan.”

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

Not that I am a fan of judicial activism, but even the Founding Fathers intended the Constitution to grow and change with the times.

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