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The document is open to interpretation by the Courts. That's why they are there.

Just because things don't always go as you like, you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

It seems like the only time it's " interpreted" is when someone, usually the government, wants to do something to somebody, usually " We The People", that the Constitution already expressly prohibits them from doing, in plain simple English that even lawyers, judges, and politicians ought to be able to understand.

According to 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner, writing on Slate.com, it’s time for the Supreme Court – and, indeed, law students everywhere – to stop giving so much deference to that old, musty document known as the U.S. Constitution.

“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation,” Posner wrote. “Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc. of the 21st century. Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post-Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today.”

Some have made the argument, bordering on the frivolous, that only those arms in existence in the 18th century are protected by the Second Amendment. We do not interpret constitutional rights that way. Just as the First Amendment protects modern forms of communications, e.g., Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, 849 (1997), and the Fourth Amendment applies to modern forms of search, e.g., Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27, 35–36 (2001), the Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding.

DC v Heller, 2008
[emphasis added]

And replace it with "what"?

Culture and technology may change, but human nature remains unchanged and the acquisition of power (and use of same)by corrupt individuals and governments will continue unabated.

But the document and the foresight of the founders is all that prevents it, and stands above the fray.

To suggest that we should trust any portion of todays crop of fools with the ability to tamper with it, is ridiculous.

The judge is an idiot.