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 …
Ben Franklin, who operated a printing press, would have seen nothing unusual in a different technology for printing words.
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So now we are speculating. Franklin could have imagined a tweet. Or reddit as “assembly” perhaps. Could he have imagined how the 14th Amendment has been construed? Maybe.
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He'd been dead for 70 years when they wrote it. But the judicial assault on the original meaning of the 14th Amendment started within a decade of its passage.
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