Caught Up in the Past?

The blog entry Caught Up in the Past discusses a very important issue being the compromise of past intentions and the betterment of the future. I feel that the founding fathers intentions are very important because they helped get us where we are today. I also think that traditions should be preserved and respected as much as possible to produce a more united and patriotic nation. I understand that times are changing and we should make some necessary changes in our government to accommodate for that but at the same time the focus on the words of the constitution is more for government consistency than being stuck in the past.

The issue of selective incorporation is more of a matter of the past government disputes than how we deal with cases now. While that points out that past legislative officials were not efficient in the way they conducted government it doesn't reflect the constitution in present day America. It could, however, possibly be an indicator that they were incompetent in their practice and were possibly incapable of creating an effective constitution that could be used for generations which was their intention.

In terms of legal concerns with new and unforeseen innovations such as stem cell research I definitely believe that we should be thinking more so about how we feel now than on words in the constitution that weren't meant for these contemporary issues. While the focus should be on current thoughts and ideas there is some legitimacy in the words of the constitution because they were meant to be effective in all conceivable situations. That being said, I think a carefully crafted combination of old and new methods is the best solution to the nations concerns with the constitutions use.