living constitution

May 18, 2014

Even Conservative Judges Can’t Deny the Constitutional Logic of Same-Sex Marriage – The Daily Beast

Who would have thought, just a few years ago, that the states on the vanguard of marriage equality would be the deepest red states? But here we are: From December’s decision in Utah to the past two weeks in Arkansas… Continue reading
December 18, 2012

So You Think You Know the Second Amendment? : The New Yorker

…Conservatives often embrace “originalism,” the idea that the meaning of the Constitution was fixed when it was ratified, in 1787. They mock the so-called liberal idea of a “living” constitution, whose meaning changes with the values of the country at… Continue reading