The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129429 Message #2911624
Posted By: Greg F.
21-May-10 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Arizona law targeting ethnic studies
Subject: RE: BS: Arizona law targeting ethnic studies
...but I seriously doubt they had in mind modernizing [the constitution ] to fit the political philosophy ...
That's the problem wit presentism and the blinkered view it engenders.
The founding mothers and fathers seemed to have no problem "modernizing" the dominant political milieu of preceeding several milennia in order to create their document in the first place, and in so doing, shaping it to their OWN political philosophy.