Marco Rubio: The Constitution is not a living document.........

[2aguy]

no. i meant what i said. no justces believed in a private right of gun ownership. there was no precedent for it until scalia discovered it in Heller.

…the right of the people…shall not be infringed.”​

There's the precedent. Straight from the wording of the Second Amendment itself, as ratified in 1791. What it affirms is a right of the people. This means an individual right. Period.

Any ruling which claims that “the people” does not mean the people, is just plain wrong.

ooh... i can use bold too.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,

so all of the justices for over two hundred years were wrong and scalia "discovered" out of thin air, the truth?

Which justices were those? Name one court that ruled the right to bear arms was not an individual right.

you can start with justice warren berger, dear


"A fraud on the American public.” That’s how former Chief Justice Warren Burger described the idea that the Second Amendment gives an unfettered individual right to a gun. When he spoke these words to PBS in 1990, the rock-ribbed conservative appointed by Richard Nixon was expressing the longtime consensus of historians and judges across the political spectrum. "

Read more: How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

hitler, stalin, mao...they would all agree with him.

 

[Likkmee]

You don't comprehend "poiticlish' Very well. It's not English. It's a form of double speak.
"Not a living document"=dead, gone, irrelevant, doesn't fucking exist in my world.
Mis-spoke= Intentionally lied like a motherfucker---whatcha gonna do about it ?
"Our thoughts and prayers are with them"=Is my dinner ready yet ?
"I have a full schedule on my calendar"=I'm golfing with(insert scumbag here)today.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

The government of today was not created just for the hell of it, and the Founders never wanted the pitchforks to have a say in government. They founded a Democratic Republic, not a democracy. That was on purpose...

And strawman "arguments", where they pretend to "refute" arguments no one has made?

“I am 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.”

― Thomas Jefferson

And that is why they put the Amendment process into the Constitution twit.........try to keep up.

That was so they didn't have to throw it out again. They expected us to, long ago.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

 

[WildBillKelsoe]

What the hell is a "living document"? Do liberals think the Constitution is "living" in that it can change and evolve with the times or is the word "living" just a romantic notion?

Refusing to allow interpretations or extensions to an old document is silly.

It depends on the interpretations and extensions.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

What the hell is a "living document"? Do liberals think the Constitution is "living" in that it can change and evolve with the times or is the word "living" just a romantic notion?

Refusing to allow interpretations or extensions to an old document is silly.

It depends on the interpretations and extensions.

Right, the ones you like are in, the others not.

 

[2aguy]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

Yeah....Jefferson was in France.....

And again....that is why they put in the difficult Amendment process......they didn't want things to be changed on a whim....or according to the desires of 9, politically appointed lawyers......

 

[2aguy]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

He thought it wouldn't last because he knew about people like you......he would have been amazed it lasted as long as it has since he knew what twits there are in the world....

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

He thought it wouldn't last because he knew about people like you......he would have been amazed it lasted as long as it has since he knew what twits there are in the world....

He thought it wouldn't last because they damn near didn't get it written even back then. No one could agree on much of anything, which is why it is so full of compromises and vague language. Ironically enough, that's why it has lasted.

The Survival of the US Constitution | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

 

[2aguy]

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

He thought it wouldn't last because he knew about people like you......he would have been amazed it lasted as long as it has since he knew what twits there are in the world....

He thought it wouldn't last because they damn near didn't get it written even back then. No one could agree on much of anything, which is why it is so full of compromises and vague language. Ironically enough, that's why it has lasted.

It lasted because they made the Amendment process so difficult.....and they had more honor back then......

 

[Contumacious]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

YOUR "CONSTITUTION"

 

[whitehall]

Nothing but gotcha crap from the left wing. The left wing blogs throw out fresh meat to the slobbering low information libs and they pretend to be outraged.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

.....and they had more honor back then......

Not really, but they did know that if you didn't govern then all hell breaks loose.

And while they did make changing the Constitution a slow process, it's not that hard if so many agree, regardless, it was never expected to last this long. They thought we'd do what they did, found a government that worked for the times in which we live.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They never expected it to last anything like this long.

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

YOUR "CONSTITUTION"

Just keep lying to yourself, you have a gift for that.

 

[Contumacious]

See how blithely the leftists come up with lies when they can't win with the truth?

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

YOUR "CONSTITUTION"

Just keep lying to yourself, you have a gift for that.

WUT?

I thought it was safe now for you motherfuckers to come out of the closet.

Thanks to comrade Sanders.

.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

"On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural course with those who gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.--It may be said that the succeeding generation exercising in fact the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law has been expressly limited to 19 years only." - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison

Yeah.....and where is that actually in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence.....a private letter from one guy to another is not law....

The private letter shows that I am correct, they wrote a Constitution that worked for them, and expected us to do the same. It was never meant to last this long....

Washington thought it might, might, last 20 years.

YOUR "CONSTITUTION"

Just keep lying to yourself, you have a gift for that.

WUT?

I thought it was safe now for you motherfuckers to come out of the closet.

Thanks to comrade Sanders.

.

He can't get elected, and he's a socialist, I'm a capitalist.