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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Constitutions embody general principles. Do you think the Fourteenth Amendment would have been enacted if its framers had been told that the Supreme Court would decide Loving v. Virginia or Brown v. Board? Probably not. But they were enshrining a principle, not outcomes.
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Agreed, but if one were sufficiently outraged by such decisions, one might seek a way to overrule them, no? And if there's an "expedient" way to do so, one might use it.