From the American Thinker: All Right, Have It Your Way - It's a Living Constitution (HT: TH)

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June 26, 2012

All Right, Have It Your Way - It's a Living Constitution

By James V. DeLong

"We need not insult our forebears.  They faced some real problems and invented some solutions, and the 20^th century produced an astounding burst of human creativity and increases in well-being.  But the dark side of the governmental forces they unleashed are threatening to overwhelm us, and we should allow ourselves to learn from the experience. 

It is actually the proponents of the living Constitution, with their solicitude for untrammeled government power, who fit the description of the House of Bourbon attributed to Talleyrand: "They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing."

So by all means, economic conservatives can embrace the concept of the living Constitution.  Then we can get to work figuring out how to use it to free us from the strangling hand of the regulatory state."

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