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http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas030800.asp

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/daley/050324

Al Gore said that the United States Constitution is a "living, breathing document," referring that its rules are designed to be bendable, do you think that it is living and breathing? We disagree, the United States Constitution is a set of rules, and like all other rules, they are meant to be set and unchangeable unless a necassary change is needed.The U.S. Constitution can be changed for the better, but this can only happen by going through the amendment process, but once undertaken, any amendment has to become unchangeable like the rest of the our U.S. Constitution. It should only be changed when **two- thirds** of the states decide that a change is completely appropriate.Changes are not frequent and there have not been any for a while now. Therefore our Constitution is not alive. It is very rare for about 34 states to completely agree on an idea. Our Constitution was made to have it be changed by the majority process, and not how the government thinks it should be. No person should have the right to read the Constitution, and decide that it should be changed based on their thoughts about it.If people were allowed to make changes without other peoples judgement it would be like choosing a new president, just based on one persons thoughts.Al Gore shouldn't be looking for justices who believe in what he says, because that would be unfair to American citizens.

They would just be siding with what he believed in so thay they get whatever they want and we dont and that is not right or fair to us.Many people do not realize what could've happened if he had been chosen as our president.Our constitution would have most likely been changed if he had been chosen to be our president not for our better but for him and his friends. Our constitution could've been altered by Al Gore and supreme justices he chose because they agree with him on the constitution. It shouldn't be changed this way. The American citizens should be able choose this, not one person who has a lot of power and some personally chosen justices. Al Gore stated that it was meant to be changed due to the constantly evolving experience of the American citizens. So why would he choose justices that have the same opinion as him? It would be completely pointless, because it should be up to the American people to decide if the United States Constitution should be changed. Even that does not happen very often, so maybe Al Gore thinks that instead he could get supreme justices that think the same as him, and possibly pass the law through them. This would be completely unfair, because we would not have a voice in the situation, and the whole country would be furious with one person changing what we have been following for so many years.

The Constitution even says that they are not allowed to do this. So they would be breaking the rules of the Constitution while trying to change it. It would be almost like dictatorship, and so if you do not mind what they could have done, then we could have possibly had dictatorship. Dictatorships are not good for us but good for the leader of the country, they get what they want and dont care about us. so now you have heard this, you might want to agree with us if it is a true statement or agree with us that it is not. So now you know that know what could've haapened, you should realize what we are trying to say about all this. We're not forcing you to agree with us, but ee think the facts are there and that only a few people took notice to what the sentence really meant. I am sure that Al Gore did not think that it would go this far, but he should have expected it because what he said is, in our opinion, wrong. If Al Gore had become our president, then he most likely would have changed the U.S. Constitution,and many people would be outraged, because they didn't think deeper into what he had stated. It would be an act of dictatorship, to the point of his impeachment. He can't just say that it's living and breathing, because that is in his opinion, not the American citizens. It is like he made his mind up and he didn't care what other people say. If he had become our president, who knows what could have happened to our country. I think this was a very stupid mistake for Al Gore to make in his running for president. He should have not stated such a thing that he did, and for that it only hurt him in his running. Next time, if there is one, he should choose his words wisely, and look for an opinion from American citizens.