And yet the Supreme Court has found that a Constitutional right to abortion exists, in the absence of a single word in the Constitution about abortion (and I believe in freedom of choice in that area myself, but I'm still amused by the logical inconsistency the Court will indulge in to give orthodox liberals what they want this week).

The weakness of our Constitution is that it means what the Supremes say it means this week. But it's better than nothing.

Incidentally, I'll accept the argument that the right to bear "arms" means flintlocks and swords and muzzle-loading brass cannon, because that was what the framers of the Constitution were familiar with, and had in mind when it was drafted, if those who argue that theory will accept that, by the same reasoning, "freedom of speech and of the press" means only face-to-face speech and the hard-copy print media, not radio/TV/telephone/internet/etc., since none of them existed then either.

Peter.