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    5 months ago

    Then entire basis of US law, except Louisiana, is English Common Law. The Constitution itself is based on that. I’m afraid that you might not like the result but this is how it works unless the constitution gets amended or replaced.

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        5 months ago

        It doesn’t say anything about 18th century human rights philosophers either but it’s full of that too.

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            Yes. It is. It’s assumed because that’s how the legal theories at the time it was written went.

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                It’s clear that you think that it was written in a vacuum without any historical context. That’s not how history works. It’s unclear why you are stuck on this particular hill.