User talk:Waltoninn

The question still remains, despite my addition having been removed based on a "NPOV", is the fact that the word "substantial" does not appear in the U. S. Constitution with reference to the Contract Clause. I could have cited the U. S. Constitution as a reference, but in the final analysis, had the framers, and thus writers, of the Constitution meant for this clause to be interpreted in such a way that "substantial" should be read into it, then for all intents and purposes they would have actually written that word before "impair". They didn't. That is the factual point of the information I included in the article.

So, if that is really what the Constitution should read, then why hasn't a Bill been introduced into Congress in order to actually have the clause changed to be read in this manner? A simple question, but it goes to the heart of the matter. There is a mechanism for allowing the courts to "interpret" the various clauses in such a manner as the present passing moment apparently allows, i.e. by stating that the word "substantial" is a part of the Constitution, when it is not. And the mechanism to do that is also set out in the Constitution, the introduction of a bill to change the language of the Constitution. To do otherwise goes against the very grain of the entire framework that the Founding Fathers, through the Constitution, established, a democratic process to work through legal, political and social change. In order for this Constitutional document to remain as one that has meaning and is not simply "frayed away" at the edges or so subtly distorted over time that it deviates from its own core, then the proper mechanism should be used: change the wording of the Constitution.

I correctly pointed out that when the courts attempt to insert words into the Constitution, such that they become part of the everyday legal nomenclature, then a conflict does exist between what the Constitution states and how people are acting under it. Is that not a fair analysis?

Waltoninn (talk) 05:20, 12 February 2010 (UTC)