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by sjg007 1885 days ago
Depends on if you are an originalist or not.
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MisterBastahrd 1885 days ago
Nope. A textualist, maybe, but originalists would very much be looking towards English law for guidance on what the Constitution meant.
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sjg007 1885 days ago
It’s called originalism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism
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