November 11, 2020
A note about originalism for Amy Coney Barrett
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and
Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress
of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new
discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change,
with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace
with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted
him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their
barbarous ancestors.” - Thomas Jefferson
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I recently ran into an old friend, whom I hadn't seen in several years, and he opened the conversation by saying, "If I knew I was going to live this long I would have kept the owner's manual."
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