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Anytime you need to use a Ouija board to interpret your laws you are in trouble. I think that we would all be better off if the constitution were considered as part of reality, and not some as part of some mythical USA origin story.
It's a legal document. It's written in words. Word meanings change. The things that we need from a constitution change. It means whatever we decide it means it means, regardless of the opinions we attempt to ascribe to centuries-old dead men.
I think the constitution ought to be viewed as a modern legal document, because that's what it is. I think that it's ridiculous to presume that the FF's thought future generations unfit to interpret the constitution in their own way. If they did, then perhaps we ought to think less of them, or at least think less of their ability to understand how societies change.
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