• AnonTwo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think we can find a middleground between “fuck em” and “their word is law”

    In fact most of the time the people trying to make their word out to be law are using the most loose and self-pandering interpretation they can.

    Like you said, the same founding fathers did not want it to be this way. I wish we’d argue harder how unamerican it is that people are treating the founding fathers with zealotry.

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      1 year ago

      They literally designed the Constitution to be the foundation of all law in the country.

      Their words (at least the specific ones in the Constitution) literally are law.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, the ones specific to the constitution

        Because those words can be changed. They were made to be changed. They were intended to be changed.

        They’re not meant to be worshipped, they’re meant to do their job, and change as needed to keep up with the times.

        The founding fathers had their fears, and the constitution was made to repel those fears. And little by little we use their name to draw those fears side by side what they created.

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          1 year ago

          They’re not meant to be worshipped

          I think the central problem here is a lot of kids conflating “this is literally the ultimate law of the land” with “I have a religious reverence for this document”.