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I don't want to live within the vision of liberty as imagined by the writers of the Constitution in 1789. The men who thought guns were freedom, women lesser, and Black people property shouldn't define our rights today.On twitter.com
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The dominant legal interpretation at the Supreme Court is that all our laws should be subject to imaginary review by the Founders' generation. This is a manifestly stupid idea that would be rejected in almost every other political system.Permalink On twitter.com
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It's incredibly unhealthy that the same institutions and texts are used by the US Supreme Court to harmonize laws with basic rights (a normal thing worldwide) and to harmonize them with the Founders' principals (a fetishization of a far from ideal past).Permalink On twitter.com
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