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The Constitution can always be reinterpreted by future courts, regardless what the current SCOTUS says it does.

• skissane 4y ago
  Of course it can. The constitution currently means, right now, whatever SCOTUS says it means right now. It used to mean something different and no doubt will mean something else again in years and decades to come. And that will continue to be true, unless some day some other institution in the US successfully takes over this role from SCOTUS. In the People's Republic of China, the final authority on constitutional interpretation is not the judicial branch, it is the legislature (Standing Committee of the National People's Congress). I doubt the US would ever adopt that system, but if it did, then SCOTUS would no longer make the final decision on what the constitution means. What the constitution originally meant, is a fixed historical fact – although like any other historical question, we can debate the details, and there is no guarantee that consensus on such debates is always attainable.