Scalia Slams the 'Living Constitution'

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has the libs in an uproar after his comments at a Federalist Society meeting in Puerto Rico regarding the 'living Constitution':

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

In a speech Monday sponsored by the conservative Federalist Society, Scalia defended his long-held belief in sticking to the plain text of the Constitution "as it was originally written and intended."

"Scalia does have a philosophy, it's called originalism," he said. "That's what prevents him from doing the things he would like to do," he told more than 100 politicians and lawyers from this U.S. island territory.

According to his judicial philosophy, he said, there can be no room for personal, political or religious beliefs.

Scalia criticized those who believe in what he called the "living Constitution."

"That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break."

"But you would have to be an idiot to believe that," Scalia said. "The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things."

Proponents of the living constitution want matters to be decided "not by the people, but by the justices of the Supreme Court."

"They are not looking for legal flexibility, they are looking for rigidity, whether it's the right to abortion or the right to homosexual activity, they want that right to be embedded from coast to coast and to be unchangeable," he said.

I've always loved what Dr. Walter E. Williams has to say about the 'living Constitition'. As Williams explains, the Constitution is the rules of our country, and the left often doesn't like the rules. For those who believe in the 'living Constititution', he challenges them to play him in poker and have the rules be 'living'. That way his pair of duces can beat their three Kings. It's a pretty handy system if you look at it that way, and that's pretty much the way the left looks at our nation's rules. If they can't get what they want by playing by the rules, they just change the rules.

Scalia's right, and I'm glad he's got a lifetime appointment.

UPDATE: Speaking of Dr. Williams, he is a professor at George Mason University, occassional fill-in for Rush Limbaugh, and happens to be African-American (or 'black by popular demand'). Dr. Williams has graciously pardoned all of us white folks for any sins related to the slavery of his ancestors, and in fact, you can get your own official pardon document here. I think that's darn nice of him.