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#51 Posted:
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originalist interpretation of the Constitution is impossible, because our society has changed immeasurably since the original was written, in ways the framers could not have imagined...

the beauty of their document is that it can be applied to changing circumstances, and in anticipation of that, provides a framework to adapt...

several other nations have used the US Constitution as a model: Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Japan are among them...despite social and cultural and historical differences among all of these diverse places, the ideals and concepts can be adapted, arguing that originalist interpretation may not have been the desire of the authors...
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