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The point is that it keeps getting adapted to the needs of the modern world. Compare that to many other countries that seem to simply make up laws as they go along and often end up trampling the rights of a great many people in the process. Or, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, the American constitution is the worst document of law ever written, except for any other. I'd rather live with the various decisions of the Supreme Court and the strictures of the constitution, even when I don't always agree with it (I really didn't like for example the Supreme Court's decision in Gore v Bush) than live with an ad hoc system where things get made up whenever. It's one of the things that bothers me about my current residence, Israel. We don't have a constitution and I believe it creates many problems in this country. Though I continue to hope for change.
Eric
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