NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
How many of the hundreds, perhaps thousand, of changes and interpretations of the constitution have taken place since it went into effect, and of those hundreds, how many were by amendment? Most changes have been by the Court, others by simple use and tradition, some by law. The California constitution has been amended over 600 times and some corporations love that easy amendment process.
I wonder how many laws that we obey today with little question, would be found unconstitutional by certain courts?
Marbury v Madison, for example, was decided in 1803, while the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution were still around and even some were on the court, such as John Marshall, a Virginia delegate in the ratification of the Constitution.
The sort of literalist fundamentalist extremists who like to claim that such things as the power of judicial review are 'unconstitutional' and not what the framers intended conveniently ignore such simple facts.