“If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.”
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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child, ' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.