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Darknight613 said:
Doesn't the fact that the Founding Fathers set up rules for adding amendments to the Constitution prove that some things were meant to change?



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the G-man said:
Okay. Assuming you're correct, please tell us which Amendement delineated, for example, the "right" to free health care and when was it ratified by the states?




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Darknight613 said:


What made you think I was talking about health care? I was merely addressing the question of whether or not our Consitution was meant to change, and in what capacity. Health care was in no way related to my comment.



I used health care for an example.

If you don't want to talk about health care, find any Amendment after the first ten that added a "right" to any sort of financial benefit.

In fact, point to any amdendment that creates any right at all. The only ones that come close are regarding voting rights and, in each of those cases, the intent was less about creating a right and more about clarifying who had the existing right.

The fact that there are none would tend to indicate an understanding that the Constitution may be an evolving document, but NOT one that evolved to create rights.

Most of the current "Rights" that people seem to want (health care being one example) are found no where in the constitution and, in fact, nothing even similar to them is found anywhere therein.