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That’s the beauty of “originalism”. It is an incredibly flexible bit of exegetical footwork that doesn’t really look for the plain sense meaning of the Constitutional text, even though it says it does. Quite the opposite!
We have "cafeteria Constitutionalism" in Shinyland, just as we have "cafeteria Christianity".
Decades ago, I saw an interview with an anti-income tax advocate. The anti-tax guy insisted the income tax was unconstitutional. The interviewer pointed out that the Constitution was amended, in accordance with the procedure in the Constitution, to allow it. The guy kept insisting the income tax was unconstitutional.
It's like the people pushing for the US to be a Christian theocracy. They reject the Communistical things Jesus said, but embrace the old testament bigotry.
Steve
