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 …
The short answer is that all of these are objections that originalists have heard and addressed a thousand times. John Marshall, in Gibbons v Ogden, had to apply the Commerce Clause to steamboats. Repeating rifles were foreseen by 1791. etc.
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Understood & acknowledged. And yet there are “technological limitations” placed by SCOTUS (see Scalia in Heller re: what kind of weapons the 2A protects).
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...So technological change is ok for judges to push the Constitution forward on, but not social mores? As I said in the beginning, at least living Constition proponents are honest about their end game.
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