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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's being quiet about the part where the founders failed to predict an institutionalized two-party system.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    So much of their arguments rely on that; "clearly the Constitution says nothing explicitly on this issue (or alternatively, the constitution wasn't microscopically specific this was a case it had in mind so, really, who are we to allow it to apply to this scenario?); as an originalist, I just presume that there was no intent rather than assuming anyone in the project of writing a founding document has any interest in it working fairly or well."

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