Constitution - Flexible or Binding?

Question

Constitution - Flexible or Binding?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

It should be binding, but it's becoming more and more flexible.

Answer 3

It is neither flexible nor binding, it is what it is...

"We the people"

"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibitting the free exercise thereof..."

Its time we stop looking for loopholes in everything and get back to the common sense approach to life.

If we say that the constitution is a flexible document then the question must be asked who has the authority to bend it.  I would bend it in ways to further my agenda and 299,999,999 other Americans would bend it to benefit them...  Our founders realized this, therefore they created a single document that would rule over all.  It was a bundle of comprimises designed to protect the Christian, Athiest, Muslim, conservative, and liberal.  

Once you make anything flexible, you have also made it weak.  Making our constitution flexible would only serve to benefit the person bending it at the expense of everyone else.

"Law is reason, free from passion." -Aristotle

"Laws were not instituted to give an attorney a job, laws are instituted to ensure the basic rights and liberties of man kind." -Reagan

Answer 4

The US Constitution is both flexible and binding.  There are basic human elements which need to be certain.  Liberty for instance is a basic imperative.

There is also a need to accommodate changes in the capacity of government especially apportionment for population to have effective representation.

Answer 5

  The Constitution means nothing if the people who reference it interpret it dis ingeniously to serve their self interests.  The principles underlying it can be terminated by the Congress at any point if they desire to.  The test of our democracy is whether we can preserve its intent through difficult times.  If members of the government or the people allow its principles to be violated while in awareness of them the magic and beauty of our greatness will dissipate.  If we don't speak out for those accused of crimes who can't get a trial then we shouldn't expect others to speak out for us when we are the targets of an arbitrary judgment. I say it's more a threat to national security to allow the world to see us violate our principles out of fear and vengence then to risk letting some classified information potentially be seen. Force is the answer by the government to a ever expanding list of problems that require clever solutions.1.  War on Drugs: failed2.  Immigration Policy: failed3.  War On Terrorism: likely to fail

Answer 6

liberal vs conservative...or neo-conservative...no constitution

Answer 7

flexible for republicans, binding for democrats.