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> Why does anyone still care what the founders intended? They're not prophets…

As a foreigner whose country changed constitutions a good dozen of times since the USA passed its own and amends it more or less yearly, this used to baffle me. My take is that there is so little that units American together nowadays that they cling strongly to every anchor they can find.



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