This would be funny if people didn't take it so seriously.Let me clear something up for those of you out there who struggle with how to answer a liberal who likes to claim Republicans will throw America back to the times of slavery and women not being allowed to vote:
The Constitution was written by very intelligent men who knew that they didn't know everything. They built in a process to change the Constitution if, over time, the people realized that things needed changing. It's called the amendment process. They believed so much in amendments that they put 10 of them in only four years after writing the original document. These first 10 amendments became the founding rights of our country known as the Bill of Rights. That's right - free speech wasn't in the "original" version of the Constitution. It wasn't until some of the framers raised doubts about a centralized government taking away the rights of the people that these were added in as a condition of accepting the new United States government.
No one is going to appoint judges who pick which version of the Constitution they want tom enforce. Being a "strict constitutionalist" means that a Supreme Court justice's job is to apply the laws as they are written and to ensure that those laws follow Constitution, as it IS written, with amendments and all, not how it WAS written.The problem conservatives have with 'activist' judges is that they make up rules IN ADDITION to the Constitution to suit their personal opinions, which have no place in the Supreme Court.If a law is passed by a city, state or the federal government - and that law does not violate any provision of the U.S. Constitution, then the Supreme Court has no business being involved in changing that law. Plain and simple.
Our government is set up so that legislatures make laws and judges enforce and interpret those laws in accordance with the Constitution.Slavery is specifically forbidden by the U.S Constitution under the thirteenth amendment. Whoopi should be glad that McCain wants judges that intepret the Constitution this way.
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