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Are suggesting we abolish the Constitution and create a new one?

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Are suggesting we abolish the Constitution and create a new one? No, that was Thomas Jefferson saying that. I’m saying asking “what would the founders think?” is asking an irrelevant question, as well as an unanswerable one.
  • ixwt 3y ago
    The current Supreme Court and their fixation on originalism would strongly disagree with you.
    • dragonwriter 3y ago
      Originalism is a mode of interpretation that focuses on how words of a legal enactment would have been understood when written, which is a distinctly different question than what the authors’ opinion would have been of something.