"The USA suffers from chronic racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia and a founding document (our amazing, venerable and oft misinterpreted Constitution) in serious need of modernization."
Many in the USA embrace racism, bigotry, misogyny, and xenophobia. Some, including the Founders, have used the Constitution to institute their prejudice…
"The USA suffers from chronic racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia and a founding document (our amazing, venerable and oft misinterpreted Constitution) in serious need of modernization."
Many in the USA embrace racism, bigotry, misogyny, and xenophobia. Some, including the Founders, have used the Constitution to institute their prejudices and perpetuate inequality. However, the Founders also wrote into the Constitution procedures by which we can make progress towards establishing their revolutionary declaration of radical equality. And invited us to do so.
"The USA suffers from chronic racism, bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia and a founding document (our amazing, venerable and oft misinterpreted Constitution) in serious need of modernization."
Many in the USA embrace racism, bigotry, misogyny, and xenophobia. Some, including the Founders, have used the Constitution to institute their prejudices and perpetuate inequality. However, the Founders also wrote into the Constitution procedures by which we can make progress towards establishing their revolutionary declaration of radical equality. And invited us to do so.
And so we should accept the invitation.
Until Scalia, Leonard Leo et al came on the scene, we had.
Now even some others who should know better have gotten sucked into asserting we are all originalists.