I would rather have a court that supports the Constitution strictly and occasionally reaches conclusions I don't like than one that thinks that the Constitution is some irrelevant nonsense that applied only in the 18th century. There are occasional items which applied to specific circumstances that have changed -- for instance, there's a provision guaranteeing a jury trial in suits over $20, which was a huge amount of money back then -- but that's what the amendment process is for.
Freedom of speech is still freedom of speech, even though Jefferson and Hamilton couldn't have imagined the Internet. Growing vegetables in your back yard still isn't "interstate commerce," even though it became convenient to the federal government to claim it is so that it could fall under regulation.
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I would rather have a court that supports the Constitution strictly and occasionally reaches conclusions I don't like than one that thinks that the Constitution is some irrelevant nonsense that applied only in the 18th century. There are occasional items which applied to specific circumstances that have changed -- for instance, there's a provision guaranteeing a jury trial in suits over $20, which was a huge amount of money back then -- but that's what the amendment process is for.
Freedom of speech is still freedom of speech, even though Jefferson and Hamilton couldn't have imagined the Internet. Growing vegetables in your back yard still isn't "interstate commerce," even though it became convenient to the federal government to claim it is so that it could fall under regulation.