
Wise words here from former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, on the problems with “originalism” when it comes to the U.S. Constitution…
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“For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”
“If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.”
— former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
And if you insist on being an “originalist,” you can’t cherry-pick your interpretations of the Constitution.
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