I confess that I would have preferred that the more progressive members of the Supreme Court not have seen the Constitution evolving in quite this way. I suspect that if the power of the State had been pruned back here, Justice O'Connor would not need to have written "The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms."

Still, perhaps that is what people mean when they refer to the Constitution as “a living, breathing document”.

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