The Founders did not believe that the Constitution would be changed over time by the courts, rather than the sovereign people through the Article V amendment process.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1132086340202504198 …
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This view does a huge disservice to the founders. What would “arms” mean 200 years later? “Property”? A “search”? The Constituon is full of words & concepts that indelibly change with time. Women and slaves were “property” when it (& the Declaration of Independence) were drafted.
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The 13th & 19th Amendments suggest how the Founders thought such things should be addressed.
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Three of the brightest lights on the left in that exchange. Add them up and you might get a 20W bulb.
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If you've read your F.A. Hayek, you would discover a surprising detail... the states themselves were abusive with their power in the early years because they were not structured with sufficient teeth to restrain abuse of power
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The prospect of a revisable written Constitution was established by Pennsylvania's first Frames of Government in 1682, 1683, 1696 and 1701.
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