"I do want people to start thinking about what our founders intended"
Whereas I want people to STOP thinking about it. The founders intended women and blacks to be denied voting rights, they saw blacks as property and abortion would never have been legal. The death penalty wasn't "cruel or unusual"...
We can use them as guidelines, but trying to use a 1787 mindset in a 2008 world is a mistake.
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Date: 2008-01-05 08:46 pm (UTC)Whereas I want people to STOP thinking about it. The founders intended women and blacks to be denied voting rights, they saw blacks as property and abortion would never have been legal. The death penalty wasn't "cruel or unusual"...
We can use them as guidelines, but trying to use a 1787 mindset in a 2008 world is a mistake.