If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice?

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.