Today in liberals who have never heard of the amendment process.https://twitter.com/RepSpeier/status/1316429328876556288 …
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Yes, the Founders expected amendments, made two of them themselves even after adding the Bill of Rights. Originalism is the idea that changing it is the job of the people, not the judgeshttps://twitter.com/RoyalMadjesty/status/1317103454914007042 …
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Lincoln wasn't on the Court and ideas that are under 100 yrs old can be considered contemporary for legal purposes.
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Lincoln was an originalist? Funny Originalism didn’t exist until it dribbled out the asses of white male conservatives in the 70s as the Warren/Burger courts brought the Bill of Rights and 14th amendment to life for non white prople!


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They, for instance, try to come up with the "true meaning" of intentionally vague terms, they don't say who's true meaning is appropriate, when ratifying conventions had different beliefs about the document. Also, you try to glean intent from non primary source documents.
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The original public meaning that was common at the time of ratification. The secret desires of the writers or ratifiers are irrlevant, unless they were put into the text.
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The “living document” activist court interpretation was Dred Scott. That took away the state power to ban slavery within their own borders.
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Well the only reason that banning slavery nationwide had to be done through a constitutional amendment is because the Southern slave states and owners would have challenged a simple federal statute and it would likely have been overturned by SCOTUS.
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Slavery should have been antithetical to our nation's founding from the very beginning. However, the Founding Fathers weren't willing to break up the young United States by trying to outlaw slavery.
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