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>We don't have a constitution any more, we just have interpretations and they change. US law has always relied on interpretation and precedent, it's built on E
by b00ty4breakfast 10mo ago
>We don't have a constitution any more, we just have interpretations and they change.
US law has always relied on interpretation and precedent, it's built on English Common Law.
- Alive-in-2025 10mo agoThere used to be a fig leaf of truth to the idea that the supreme court would interpret things and it would generally stick. That has changed with today's court reinterpreting many settled legal ideas, one obvious one being the recent "kava augh stop" turning America into a "show your papers please" country. It didn't used to be this way.
- skeeter2020 10mo ago>> US law has always relied on interpretation and precedent, Isn't the key here that an interpretation sets the precedent, and then we don't get continual "reinterpretation"? That's what seems to be happening these days.
- b00ty4breakfast 10mo agosure; the problem is ignoring precedence though, not judicial interpretation, which is a deliberate part of the process.