Law, Passion, Reason

Aristotle said, "the law is reason, free from passion." This basically means that the law is meant to be followed in order to uphold certain standards set by government and society, and there should be no room for personal feelings or obsessions that are based on those feelings.

In other words, you cannot allow personal prejudices or subjective interpretations to interfere with the dispensation of the law.

Or is it?

In the course of this countries’ 245 years of existence, one of the youngest countries in the world by the way-

Since 1789 we have had somewhat over 11,00 amendments proposed at amending our Constitution and actually amended it 27 times. There is a clause in the Constitution that provides instruction on how to propose and amend an amendment. Does the fact that we have changed laws mean that the law is not based on reason because reason does not change? It does not become outdated, but is it based on the “winds of societal fever”?