The only reason originalism is good is because conservatives are spineless and stupid and it's nice that we have a mindless mechanism for preserving norms from a saner era.
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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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