Why In The World Would You Have

The Court's Job Is To Uphold The Constitution And You Don't Call That Off In Times Of Crisis. Would The Framers Have Allowed This Practice?

The Death Penalty? Give Me A Break. It's Easy. Abortion? Absolutely Easy. Nobody Ever Thought The Constitution Prevented Restrictions On Abortion. Homosexual Sodomy? Come On. For 200 Years, It Was Criminal In Every State.

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. The Constitution Is Not A Living Organism; It Is A Legal Document. It Says Something And Doesn't Say Other Things.

A Search Is A Search, Even If It Happens To Disclose Nothing But The Bottom Of A Turntable.

To Allow The Policy Question Of Same-sex Marriage To Be Considered And Resolved By A Select, Patrician, Highly Unrepresentative Panel Of Nine Is To Violate A Principle Even More Fundamental Than No Taxation Without Representation: No Social Transformation Without Representation.