I was thinking the other day about how christians make excuses for the ridiculous parts of the bible because, after all, they realize the world and the way people think about it has changed in the last 2000 years. But many of those same people think our 200-year-old constitution is sancrosanct and meant to be taken literally, as if nothing has changed in the interim.
On the other hand, I think a flow chart like this would work for the way most of us think of the constituion too, even for the so-called originalists. As someone pointed out recently, people like Scalia and Thomas are originalists up to the point at which they are not.
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