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"The Constitution is a living doccument"
Frankly no. Why would it be in the way most people mean it in? if the constitution is supposed to change when the meaning of a word changes it could mean anything within a century or two and be completely different from how it was supposed to be written. I know I know before you even clicked but this has just been eating at med. The framers wouldn't make it in such a way because for all they knew the word "we" would eventually mean "rape". I know that's an extreme example but it gets the point across there is no way that in such an understanding of the document the whole point couldn't be lost. Take the word "regulate" for example in the context of the time the clauses containing the word were ratified it meant "to make regular". Not "to restrict" or "to prohibit" or anything close to the modern day meaning so how can you argue for a living document when a word can change so radically?
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The living document thing doesn't exactly apply to language, it applies to culture, technology, things like that. Things like video games or the internet that the founding fathers couldn't have foreseen.
But pretty much the only way to regulate is to restrict.
See, that's a good thing.
The guys who wrote it were alive at a time when the values of the Constitution were clear and stood for something.
The living voters are mostly a bunch of uneducated peons who can be easily misled into believing things that aren't constitutional, are, have largely forgotten the embodiments of those values and live day-to-day so easily that the things that brought about the constitution have been largely forgotten. This is the atmosphere that allows shit like No Child Left Behind and the PATRIOT Act to happen.
Frankly, the living voters need to have dampers put on them or they'll run the country into the ground.
The first kind is the one where the rulers have absolute control. Yes, its harsh and it sucks to live in one if you're not one of the higher-ups, but they tend to remain economically stable (just for an unpleasant and oft-unmentioned historical anecdote, the Nazis actually succeeded in taking Germany from the verge of ruin to economic superpower in less than a decade).
The other kind is the kind that reinvents itself once a century. That is, a revolution happens, and the government is entirely reinvented from scratch, and goes along smoothly. Then the cracks begin to appear, and when they get too bad, another revolution happens and totally replaces it.
The problem with America is that its trying to do the latter while in the trappings of the former, and it really isn't working, but due to tradition-worship people want to turn a blind eye to the problems. What America really needs is a from-the-ground-up remodling of its entire system, not just putting wax in the cracks here and there.
Many republics, including the United States, are democracies.
Since we are a country where most people (barring people under 18, non-citizens, and felons) are allowed to vote, and we use this voting to elect representatives as our legislators, yes, we're a democratic republic.
RAPE THE PEOPLE
Sorry, couldn't help myself.