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b_b · 4345 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let’s Give Up on the Constitution - Opinion - NYTimes
While textualism is rooted in absurdity and fantasy, I find comfort in the fact that we have some kind of document where the buck supposedly stops. As John Adams said, "We are a nation of laws and not of men." Without a set of laws that describes what types of laws the government can legally create, then we are a nation of men and not of laws. That said, I think there's a rational argument to be made that we could benefit from a new constitutional convention.