Politics with Paul Podcast #7 - How Do We Interpret the Constitution?

Government officials take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution before they take office, yet conservatives and liberals often have considerably different views on how to interpret the US Constitution. Do we interpret it in the context of when passages were ratified? Does the meaning change as society and times change? Today looks into the origins and development of the debate over how to interpret the US Constitution, the arguments between the two basic schools of thought known as "Originalism" and "Living Constitutionalism," and how both ideologies have shaped historical and contemporary US Supreme Court cases. Today's random question: Do you subscribe to the Shopping Cart Theory?