• searabbit@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    But they also didn’t consider themselves smart enough to have thought of everything which was the whole point of the amendment system. Which was promptly discarded as soon as it became more convenient to reinterpret the letter of the constitution to suit your needs while calling yourself an originalist.

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      11 hours ago

      I truly believe that if the framers of the constitution had any idea that they were basically writing a religious document, they would have built in the requirement for a constitutional convention every 25-ish years.

      I think they would be horrified by the idea that we had only passed 27 amendments in 237 years.