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The majority of the Constitution WAS written so as to be interpreted in a specific and easily defined manner, yet we still have intellectually dishonest liberals and progressives who think black is white and up is down; just look at their creative view of the Second Amendment, for starters.
Ignoring the fact that there are plenty of ambiguous and unclear things in the constitution, it's funny how often conservatives hide behind that argument when it's against something they don't like, and forget all about it when THEY want to make an unconstitutional law. Seems awfully hypocritical don't you think?
This country was FOUNDED BY THEM. They FOUGHT AND DIED so that you could freely malign them from the comfort of your private property. Their opinions are not more important, but they are certainly still relevant.
You're welcome to your opinion of course. If you want to take the founder's opinions into account when interpreting the constitution, go right ahead, just don't expect everyone to do it. Personally I think their opinions are irrelevant, since they're dead. If they wanted an unambiguous document, they had their chance to write it. They didn't, so it's up to us to interpret it, not them.
Honestly, I greatly respect them for that. I think leaving certain things ambiguous so that they could be interpreted as needed by future generations was a brilliant move on their parts.
You're just a typical liberal ingrate.
Yawn. Yet another poster, who, when they have no valid counter-arguments results to insults.
That's precisely what you're saying. If you think we should totally disregard the views of our Founders when interpreting the document THEY WROTE then you're throwing that part of our history into the dustbin.
Again, that's not what I said at all. Stop putting words in my mouth. You're welcome to take the founder's opinions (if you think you know what they were) into account when making your decisions about things, just don't expect the same of everyone.
What's creepy about maximizing individual liberty!? Is there something wrong with wanting to be left alone by intrusive government and liberal busy-bodies?
How Orwellian of you...
What's creepy is wanting to give more weight to the opinions of dead people than live ones. What's creepy is wanting our government to stagnate rather than grow and change with the times.