[lovich]

The Constitution as it stood 200 years ago is not the Constitution as it stands today.

Comparing an unmodified law based on age is not the same as comparing a mutable documents original age

[Aloisius]

Unmodified law? The law in question has been amended many, many, many times in the last 100 years.

For goodness sake, the original law set specific tariffs for 20,000 different goods. Little of the original law still exists unmodified.