“Why would people want to live under the ‘dead hand’ of an eighteenth-century constitution that preserved not enduring values but specific eighteenth-century thoughts about how those values then applied?”
-- Justice Stephen Breyer, Bill "Depends on what the meaning of is is" Clinton appointee, quoted here
He might as well have said:
“Why would people want to live under the ‘dead hand’ of an eighteenth-century constitution archaic Hebrew narrative that preserved not enduring values but specific second millennium BC thoughts about how those values then applied?”
Hmm. Why would they?
