On Dec 9, 7:06*pm, "Capt. JG" wrote:
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On Dec 9, 3:57 pm, "KLC Lewis" wrote:





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On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:37:26 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:

Choice of terms. The existence of amendments shows that the Constitution
can
be shaped to fit the times in which we are living.

That's only partly true and you know it.

"Only partly true..."? Sure. The amendment process can take a long time
and
be a difficult task. Nevertheless, if the will to amend the Constitition
is
there, it can be done. Since the Constitition was ratified, it has been
amended 27 times -- hardly what I would call "written in stone."

++IIRC several of those amendments where made just after it was
++ratified.
++I dunno much about it i was not alive then. but my famielies sig is on
++both doc's.

Two?

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there are drafts of more than one document from that time that reguard
the decliration and the rights contained. as well as the contenental
congress papers that also had some of those basic rights written out.
frankly i think the gggggfather that was involved should have shot the
whole lot of them in the head and kept his word to the king.