Judges throughout the country have taken the attitude that circumstances change and that, therefore, the Constitution has to be a fluid document that changes with the time. They reserve the right to interpret those changes for themselves.
The framers of the Constitution knew that things change with time and they provided that the Constitution could therefore be changed through the Amendment process; there is no language that authorizes the Judiciary to rewrite or alter the meaning of the Constitution through a contemporary interpretation. After all, the function of the judiciary is to apply the Constitution as it stands and the function of the legislative branch is to write the laws in conformity with the Constitution.
The Constitution is ours, not theirs. It belongs to the governed and not to the government. Yet, there are those in all three branches of government who look sternly down their noses and seize for themselves the right to tell us what the Constitution says or should say. It's almost as if they blame us for the Constitutional dictates that get in the way of their individual agendas.
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