According to freedman federal judges have used these ideas to among other things do the following weaken the power of states and expand that of federal courts legislatures and unaccountable bureaucracies

In the naked constitution adam freedman argues that the judicial activism on both left and right and the ‘living constitution’ theory the constitution’s meaning must ‘grow’ or ‘evolve’ alongside some vague idea of ‘social progress’ have distorted the words of the constitution into meaning whatever an overlyentitled federal judge deems they might or should mean