"...the Constitution should be a "Living Document" and change as the times dictate. I do not agree."
I detect a contradiction. The constitution has built-in accommodation for being changed. Um, they're called amendments. The process for amending the constitution is outlined by the constitution itself. Guess what? Without the capacity to change, the constitution would have no second amendment, so there you go.
Governments that do not adapt to reality are what frighten me. Those without secularity are doomed to choke on their own religious dogma. Dictatorships may last for a while, but looking at the former USSR, the Third Reich, and now the Middle East, gives a glimpse of what happens to governments that are mired in their own dogma.
The things it takes to properly run a country are reason and logic, and I'd rather not opt out of that.
Moderators, a little help here. Didn't this thread turn almost immediately into a political discussion? I laud your policy concerning this, and wish it extended to the other bugaboo, the open expression of religious thinking. Politics and religion have no place on a forum about collecting Lugers unless the references are connected to the collecting by historical context. Period.
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