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J_William_Ryan

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3. The country is far too polarized and divided to amend the Constitution.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2024, 09:01 AM

Jul 2024

The goal of originalist dogma is to balkanize citizens’ rights and protected liberties, where indeed both are no longer protected by the courts, subject to the capricious whims of the states, as citizens in Republican-controlled states have fewer rights and the authority of the state is enhanced at the expense of individual liberty.

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