A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

Some things have changed, but there's a lot of what went on in the Washington administration that's just been done ever since because that's the way we do things.

In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.