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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
Well, they did write the bloody thing. Who's more qualified to interpret a work: the author, or some ivory-tower prat trying to pigonhole that work 200+ years later?
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So you'd rather a group of dead men be the prime interpreters of a document that said dead men wrote to prevent such forces as aristocracy and tyranny from exerting power over the people?
Please tell me I don't need to remind you that the foundational idea behind a constitutional republic is that the people retain supreme power over the government via a constitution.
The American government is beholden to the Constitution, not its authors. The founders aren't a kind of American pantheon.
What next, obsessing over what Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John intended?