Constitution was written so that it could be changed frequently. Founders thought it’d be wholly replaced every few decades by such an amendment. It’s point was it’s immutability. Therefore the founders simply didn’t realize how impossible that would become.
Constitution was written so that it could be changed frequently. Founders thought it’d be wholly replaced every few decades by such an amendment. It’s point was it’s immutability. Therefore the founders simply didn’t realize how impossible that would become.
Yeah, I think the founders would be really disappointed to see the constitution revered like a religious text.
I think they’d be more disappointed to see we not only let black people vote, we let them own property.
It seems like we’ve actually grown further from treating it as such.
For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.
I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.
That’s “mutability”. “Immutable” means “not changing”. Like “mutation”, “im” like “im-possible” or “im-material”.
Irregardless…
You are correct! I’m not speaking to intent, I’m speaking to modern reality.