I have researched this for days and days, I am saying that it is a living, breathing document, and, It's an essay that's due soon. I REALLY need help, and, can't get any, PLEASE try and answer my question? I would highly appreciate if someone would please help me out with this question, thanks again! :)
2007-02-05 13:36:50 · 7 answers · asked by Bewar A 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes. The U.S. Constitution is a living, breathing document and one hell of a kisser too.
2007-02-05 13:40:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am always amused at students who use Yahoo! Answers to do their homework. OK, maybe if you're stuck on a vexing math problem, someone can give you a quick answer, but this essay question is one that YOU need to answer. What do you think about it? What does the term "living, breathing document" mean in your mind?
Think about the opposite question. If someone asked, "Is the Constitution a stagnant, dormant document", you would probably think, "No, because it's constantly interpreted and reinterpreted with each passing year, and with each generation".
The Constitution isn't just some set of rules or instructions, it is a comprehensive framework for government. It is purposely vague in parts in order to make it adaptable to changing circumstances.
Imagine a document so cleverly written that we have only had to add a few amendments onto it over a span of 200+ years.
The Consitution was written by men who could not possibly forsee the type of society, economy, lifestyle, religious attitude, racial makeup, or technology that describes present day America. However, the document manages to address almost every problem we have. Some judges interpret the Constitution in a very strict manner, while others (often referred to as "activist judges") appear to use their own biases and desires to make rulings.
The people who drafted the Consitution could not possibly have imagined present day issues such as wiretapping, terrorism, and the meteoric rise in the number of people who question every possible aspect of society, from the definition of marriage to the legality of Christmas displays, but the Constitution, that beautiful living breathing document, has the answers.
2007-02-05 15:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that isn't any longer. that is a freelance that develop into signed lower back in 1787 and finally ratified in 1792. this is a freelance. that is like announcing that my domicile loan immediately will truly recommend some thing thoroughly different in 30 years. sturdy luck operating that through everyone. If there should be alterations to the document, then amend it. it really is why we've the change procedure. you pick 37 states to approve it so it extra perfect be a sturdy change. everyone who believes that the structure is a document of regulations, is inaccurate. It supplies us our freedoms. It limits what the federal authorities can do, and it guarantees that our trouble-free freedoms are not to any extent further jeopardized.
2016-11-25 19:16:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but only in the fact that it can be amended and reinterpreted. Look up Supreme court cases of interracial marriage. Female right to vote. If you use these you should be able to explain how the Constitution adapts.
2007-02-05 14:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by ALunaticFriend 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a living document does not man that it is alive. It means that it is intended to be changed as time moves on and is not to be set to one thing ever. Notice that there is a procedure for amending- that's there for a reason.
it doesn't breathe. That's just dumb, don't put that in your paper.
2007-02-05 13:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is. It is on display at the National Archives in Washington D.C.
2007-02-05 13:42:26 · answer #6 · answered by jakkibluu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why ask this same question 5 times?
2007-02-05 13:53:07 · answer #7 · answered by united9198 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋