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   Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 23:56:42 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

   I don't give a flying fuck what the Forefathers wanted. Why would we let a bunch of dead sexist slave owners decide the kind of country we want to live in?

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     accretionist (accretionist@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 23:56:38 JST accretionist

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     • Wendell Bell

     @wndlb @RickiTarr

     as usual with projection and conservatives, they are always guilty of what they accuse others of

     so when scalia was babbling about #originalism, conservatives were busy whining about "judicial activism."

     when in fact scalia was the judicial activist, reimagining fundamental tenets of the us constitution

     they are always gaslighting

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     Wendell Bell (wndlb@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 23:56:39 JST Wendell Bell

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     • accretionist

     @accretionist @RickiTarr He never met Alito and Thomas, so what did he know? #originalism

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 repeated this.
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     accretionist (accretionist@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 23:56:40 JST accretionist

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     @RickiTarr for what it's worth, one agrees with you

     In this letter to James Madison, Jefferson asks whether or not “one generation of men has a right to bind another,” either in the form of a financial debt or a political obligation to obey a constitution of laws not contracted by that individual. He comes to the surprising conclusion that any constitution (the American included) has to lapse roughly after every generation (actually, based on his calculations, every 19 years) since it was first signed and ratified. Thus, the American Constitution should lapse and become null and void in 1808. Jefferson believed in the principle that “the earth belongs to the living and not to the dead” which meant that previous generations could not bind the current generation to pay their debts, or require them to work in their father’s occupation, or to accept the laws and constitution drawn up by their ancestors. In his mind, “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law”.