Living Law URL, Rehnquist's "The Notion of a Living Constitution"
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{{cquote|All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when “development," "evolution," is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woodrow Wilson Asks “What Is Progress?” |url=http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-asks-what-is-progress |work=[[Heritage Foundation]]}}</ref>}}
{{cquote|All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when “development," "evolution," is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woodrow Wilson Asks “What Is Progress?” |url=http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/woodrow-wilson-asks-what-is-progress |work=[[Heritage Foundation]]}}</ref>}}
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Other progressives have also had a hand in the development of this concept, such as [[Louis Brandeis]] with his [[Louis Brandeis#Brandeis_Brief|Brandeis Brief]]. Brandeis would later catalog some of his thoughts on what had occurred.<ref>The Living Law, [[Louis Brandeis]] Illinois Law Review, February 16, 1916</ref>
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Other progressives have also had a hand in the development of this concept, such as [[Louis Brandeis]] with his [[Louis Brandeis#Brandeis_Brief|Brandeis Brief]]. Brandeis would later catalog some of his thoughts on what had occurred.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/TheLivingLawLouisBrandeis ''The Living Law''],[[Louis Brandeis]], ''Illinois Law Review'', February 16, 1916</ref>
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* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No2_Rehnquist.pdf The Notion of a Living Constitution] (PDF), [[William Rehnquist]]