The Living Constitution, the Founders Intent

Original Intent.  The bugaboo of the Ultra Right Wing.  The Heritage Society and the like.  These people think that the Constitution is a Bible and the Bill of Rights is the Ten Commandments.  The believe that the Founders intended this to be carved into stone and is unchangeable.

This set of ideas are absurd and fly the face of the records kept at the time on the discussions between the group of men that compiled the Document.   In fact, before the Constitution was adopted a set of 10 amendments were approved to be attached to the Constitution, as amendments, when it was ratified.

What rational thinker would look at a document that contains the ability to amend and even rewrite in convention and say that the writers of that document intended to keep this document in tact as written. Absurd.

Then there is the fact, get that FACT, that there were issues that the members of the Convention where the Constitution was written could not come to a clear agreement on, and left in the Constitution temporary "Fixes" and then kicked the Constitution down the road for future generations to resolve.

Of Course the Constitution is and was intended to be a "Living Document" so those who lived under its Structures and laws could make the document relevant to those who are living contemporarily  rather than those long dead.