The rain on your wedding day being that the Father of the Constitution thought the president should be popularly electedhttps://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1132080489278447616 …
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The meta-problem with originalism is that the framers generally weren't originalist
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It's also that it elevates speculation about the psychology of the founders etc. to the status of precedent over subsequent formerly binding legal opinions
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jokes on them!
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Basically, the Founders are rewritten as anti-Enlightenment people who are trying to prevent a decline from an Edenic ideal.
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Right! Which is why they put the amendment process in the Constitution.
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The way conservatives treat the Constitution basically mirrors how conservative Christians regard the Bible—supernatural, timeless, transcending any historical context that might have generated it.
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Not only did the founders not believe the Constitution would spontaneously evolve... ...the concept of evolution wasn’t even in their vocabulary. You’re parroting a thoroughly 20th century, progressive belief.
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Um, no, the concept of historical change and modification was well known to men who ... led a revolution.
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There have been 27 changes to the Constitution. If you have others in mind you can use the protection granted by that first change to influence the public to make more.
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