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Interestingly, the boundary between "recent" and "tradition" is not at all clear. If a 1968 law is not old enough to be traditional, what law is? It's certainly
by quantified 4y ago
Interestingly, the boundary between "recent" and "tradition" is not at all clear. If a 1968 law is not old enough to be traditional, what law is? It's certainly not "ancient tradition". Is there a fixed year that demarcates "traditional" from "recent", or is it a distance back from the present?
Apply the same logic to all the clauses of the constitution, and we're going to get super weird pretty quickly.
- feet 4y agoMany justices were probably born around then. How can something originating in their lifetimes be considered a tradition by them?