Benefits of a Living Constitution

1. The Federal Government via the Supreme Court can address the problem of the day.
2. The Federal Government can adapt the Constitution to modern technology.
3. Barack Obama will need to wait about 15 years until he is dry behind the ears and old enough to run for President.

"The Warren Court" was an example of #1. 

The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice from 1953 to 1969.  Warren replaced the deceased Fred M. Vinson and was replaced by Warren Burger.

Warren led a liberal majority that used judicial power in dramatic fashion, to the consternation of conservative opponents. The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.

The court was both applauded and criticized for bringing an end to racial segreation in the United States, incorporating the Bill of Rights (i.e. including it in the 14th Amendment Due Process clause), and ending officially sanctioned voluntary prayer in public schools. The period is recognized as a high point in judicial power that has receded ever since, but with a substantial continuing impact.

Prominent members of the Court during the Warren era besides the Chief Justice included Justices William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, and John Marshall Harlan II.

The Federal Government support for the internet may be an example of #2.

The internet can be considered the email equivalent of "snail mail's" post roads  (Article I, Section 8).

The Master Speaks

The government of the United States was developed under the idea that nobody knew how to make a government, or how to govern.

The result is to invent a system to govern when you don't know how. And the way to arrange it is to permit a system, like we have, wherein new ideas can be developed and tried out and thrown away.

The writers of the Constitution knew of the value of doubt. In the age that they lived, for instance, science had already developed far enough to show the possibilities and potentialities that are the result of having uncertainty, the value of having the openness of possibility.

The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way some day. That openness of possibility is an opportunity. Doubt and discussion are essential to progress. 

The United States government, in that respect, is new, it's modern, and it is scientific.

It is all messed up, too. Senators sell their votes for a dam in their state and discussions get all excited and lobbying replaces the minority's chance to represent itself, and so forth.

The government of the United States is not very good, but it, with the possible exception the government of England, is the greatest government on the earth today, is the most satisfactory, the most modern, but not very good.

--Richard P. Feynman in The Meaning of it All  [A single paragraph in the master's book.]

The New Narrative

Charity begins at home; take care of yourself first.  Democrats lie.

The old narrative was that when the media identified a problem the Federal Government should/would solve it for us.

Note to Chris Christy:  Richard Feynman said that an honest politician can't be elected.  We know that New York and Maryland politicians are crooked.  Feynman didn't specifically address a politician who tried to have someone else lie for him.

If a Federal Government shutdown presents a problem, the Federal Government is too large.  A commentator on TV earlier tonight said that James Madison was turning over in his grave.

We now realize that Postmodernism is not the answer.  We do know lots of narratives that the lawyers and Democrats have been expounding.  #WOW, #VAWA, Gruberspeak

Milton Friedman was right about a lot of things.  If you want a really big screw up, you have to get the government involved.  The Keynesians tried to negate his most obvious argument (timing).

To establish Post Offices and post Roads

The US Congress is given this responsibility in the Article 8 of the US Constitution.

Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet but he did recognize that it was useful to our Country.  We now refer to mail delivered by US Post Offices over post Roads as “snail mail.”

If our Founding Fathers were writing the Constitution today, wouldn’t they address email and the Internet?  Isn’t the Internet today’s post Road?

A modern Post Office would be some kind of electronic mail server.

Email on the Internet should be protected from snoopers (including NSA) as snail mail is currently protected from snoopers.

The USPS could be working on a Transition Plan for moving forward instead of running deficits and the union running promotional ads.