http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/12/breyer-founding-fathers-allowed-restrictions-guns/
(Quote) "Breyer, who just published "Making Our Democracy Work," a book about the role of the court in American life, outlined his judicial philosophy as one in which the court must take a pragmatic approach in which it "should regard the Constitution as containing unwavering values that must be applied flexibly to ever-changing circumstances."
Since the Founding Fathers could not foresee the impact of modern day communications and technology, the only option is to take the values of the Founding Fathers and apply them to today's challenges.
"The difficult job in open cases where there is no clear answer is to take those values in this document, which all Americans hold, which do not change, and to apply them to a world that is ever changing," Breyer said. "It's not a matter of policy. It is a matter of what those framers intended." (End Quote)
Breyer said that judges "should regard the Constitution as containing unwavering values that must be applied flexibly to ever-changing circumstances."
What if my 'unwavering values' are different from Stephen Breyer's 'unwavering values'? Stephen Breyer purports to know and embody the 'unwavering' values that all American's hold, not just those of the Founding Fathers. What a stupendous statement.
The Constitution says what it say, in plain English and it cannot, must not, be construed 'flexibly' to ever-changing circumstances. There is a process, after all, to amend the Constitution.
I can't even begin to describe how 'horrified' I am that a Supreme Court Justice could say such things publicly. Well at least now he is out of the closet with his insanity!