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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 society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.