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the american constitutional system uses the consitution as a general framework the elaboration of precedent.
this feature probably explains why the americans are not on their 5th or 6th constitution by now.
it is anachronistic at best to ask "what would a bunch of 18th century people do?" to addres social problems they had no conception of.
it is as if you are operating in a civil law tradition, not common law
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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