The bad part is that fetishizing muh Constitution is a crutch and prevents the formation of a genuinely intellectual conservative solution to the manifold problems of modernity
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There's a very big difference between religious "originalism" and constitutional originalism and that is that religion is a lived tradition, part of the daily life of millions of people and hence a far more robust and organic entity. Constitutionalism is just a poor substitute
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We can see this difference played out when we observe the confidence with which the left practices its "legal realism" (really just deciding issues based on their deeply religious beliefs) and the stupid, clumsy way that conservatives think about what Thomas Jefferson thought
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i definitely think it has more to do with maintaining status than it does a deep-seated respect for the founders
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