• ugly_disabled_cishet [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        The constitution cannot be performative because until the state withers away, it is what dictates material conditions in the US.

        Saying otherwise is pure ideology.

          • ugly_disabled_cishet [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            Politicians knowingly violating the constitution are just seeing how far they can bend the powers of government to their will. Shibboleth's to the constitution are performative, the document is not. At times the document enshrined racialized slavery, alcohol prohibition, and other ills. As written, punitive slavery is still legal and good. The law can grant further rights that don't exist in the constitution but it cannot violate the document. It is not the concept of the constitution that drives America, America is the constitution and very little else.

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      3 years ago

      The Articles of Confederation were illegally overturned, according to the true originalists.

      • ugly_disabled_cishet [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Sorry sweaty, but losers don't get to write history. The Articles of Confederation had defects incompatible with life. Their government was delivered stillborn so the founding fathers set to conceiving a new one. It was either that or perish in a revolution or civil war.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          3 years ago

          Pretty disrespectful of them to value their own lives more highly than a sacred document.