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Nonilex<p>For one thing, skeptics say, its adherents have abandoned their search for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intent</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>framers</span></a>, a quixotic task that can lead only to indeterminate answers. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> as currently practiced is a modern invention whose methods have little to do w/how the founding generation conceived of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> or its method of interpretation, as recent historical research has shown. The theory’s advocates claim objectivity as one of its strengths, but the court relies on it haphazardly:</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Originalism</span></a> is the assertion that judges should be guided &amp; limited in interpreting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> solely by something original in it, although that “something” has shifted over time — from the original <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intent</span></a> of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>framers</span></a>, to the original public <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meaning</span></a> of its text, to the original <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> at the time of its adoption, w/various sub-theories now debated. The theory has been sharply criticized.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.thirring.org/@Byronrabbit" class="u-url mention">@<span>Byronrabbit</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.thirring.org/@RainCityBunnies" class="u-url mention">@<span>RainCityBunnies</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.thirring.org/@Satori" class="u-url mention">@<span>Satori</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.thirring.org/@thegreatrabbit" class="u-url mention">@<span>thegreatrabbit</span></a></span> </p><p>Both would require a constitutional amendment. That&#39;s simply impossible in Canada right now, and seems unlikely to change for many years.</p><p>The USA has a clearly defined way to amend their constitution, and has done it a number of times (but not recently).</p><p>If I had to put money on which of those comes first, it would be the electoral college in the USA, though it exists for a reason...</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/framers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>framers</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>constitution</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/amendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>amendment</span></a></p>
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