• dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    …we learned that they’re “separate but equal” branches of government in school.

    Samsies. But then again, I don’t think normal people (our founders included) ever expected a willful collusion by a party to stack those branches of government in their favor.

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      3 months ago

      The founders didn’t intend for the SCOTUS to be an equal branch of government. They just kinda started doing constitutional review, and multiple founders were explicit about how that’s not what they intended.

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      3 months ago

      More like our founders would be shocked that we haven’t rewritten the Constitution yet, and horrified that centuries later we’re treating it like some divine scripture

      There are multiple mechanisms in there to modify or even rewrite the whole thing. They totally saw this coming, they were pretty vocal about it. They hoped future generations would build on their work, not enshrine it