On Tue, 8 May 2012 08:13:09 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote:

Home Guy wrote:
notbob wrote:

It always pains me to listen to these legal beagles try and
outthink the founding fathers, as if those great men somehow
slipped up and got it wrong.

They fully expected the constitution to be re-written or changed every
20 to 30 years.

They would be slapping your faces if they knew you kept the same dusty
document as-written for over 200 years.

If the plan was for the Constitution to be re-written, why does it have a
provision for amending it?

To be fair, it also has a provision for replacing it. Both were made
sufficiently difficult that it's obvious that it wasn't something taken
lightly. Ignoring it has proved far simpler.

Further, the preamble clearly states: "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to
ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for
the United States of America."

The definition of "Posterity" is "all future generations," not merely the
next one or two...