Or shifting sands?
Sunday School kids’ll recall the song about the foolish man and the wise man taken from the parable by a carpenter from Nazareth. Foolish man? Built his house upon a foundation of sand and was naturally washed away in the first flood. The wise man built on a solid bedrock foundation and his house withstood the floods.
Keep that in mind as you read this extract from a Stop the ACLU post on Antonin Scalia’s response to one of the central strategies of the ACLU:
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Antonin Scalia was in Puerto Rico at the invitation of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies where he made a few comments on “Originalism”. Which is a term… descriptive of Strict Constructionism. Scalia does have a philosophy; it’s called originalism. That’s what prevents him from doing the things he would like to do. According to his judicial philosophy, he said, there can be no room for personal, political or religious beliefs.Scalia criticized those who believe in what he called the “living Constitution.
“That’s the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn’t say other things.”
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