living constitution

is wrongheaded on the grounds that if the constitution is believed to morph from age to age to say whatever the people would want it to say, then the whole purpose of a constitution is eliminated.

Scalia is the bete noir of the liberal legal establishment and the prime spokesman for the view that the meaning of the Constitution does not change over time. He defended his position in a 2008 NPR interview, saying, 'If you somehow adopt a philosophy that the Constitution itself is not static, but rather it morphs from age to age to say whatever it ought to say which is probably whatever the people would want it to say you eliminate the whole purpose of a Constitution. And that is essentially what the so-called living Constitution leaves you with.'

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living constitution