• duckCityComplex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I think the founders would be really disappointed to see the constitution revered like a religious text.

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      1 year ago

      I think they’d be more disappointed to see we not only let black people vote, we let them own property.

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      1 year ago

      It seems like we’ve actually grown further from treating it as such.

      For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.

      I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.

      Honestly I wouldn’t mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.