Re: DS Alert (8-21)


Don Del Grande wrote:
> Antonio E. Gonzalez wrote:

>
> Actually, "living document" doesn't refer to amending the Constitution
> as much as it does changing its meaning through Supreme Court
> decisions (wasn't there a recent one that overturned a previous
> precedent, and the majority opinion said that the original decision
> needed to be "revisited" in light of changes in public views?).
>

Yes, I think that was Plessy v. Ferguson....

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