Some GOP Candidates Are Becoming Unhinged

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National Review:

Some GOP Candidates Are Becoming Unhinged

by GEORGE WILL July 1, 2015 8:00 PM @GEORGEWILLF

 

In 1824, in retirement 37 years after serving as the Constitutional Convention’s prime mover, James Madison, 73, noted that the 1787 “language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founders.” He knew that the purport of the text would evolve “with the changeable meaning of the words composing it.” Now, 147 years since ratification of the 14th Amendment, its guarantees of “equal protection of the laws” and “due process of law” mean that states, which hitherto controlled marriage law, must recognize same-sex marriages. Anthony Kennedy’s opinion for the court said: “The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420651/same-sex-marriage-reaction-some-republican-candidates-becoming-unhinged

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George Will Gets It Wrong

Augustine July 24, 2015

 

George Will writes in “Some GOP Candidates Are Becoming Unhinged”:

 

 

In 1824, in retirement 37 years after serving as the Constitutional Convention’s prime mover, James Madison, 73, noted that the 1787 “language of our Constitution is already undergoing interpretations unknown to its founders.” He knew that the purport of the text would evolve “with the changeable meaning of the words composing it.”

Will later notes that “Such evolution [of the meaning of the Constitution] is real and relevant.”

It turns out that — here at least — what you see on a first glance is frightfully wrong.

 

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