Scalia critic Judge Richard Posner sees ‘no value’ in studying the US Constitution
“Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century.”
Maybe those “Eighteenth-century guys” could not foresee all of the future but they knew it well enough to give us their strongest possible guarantee against tyranny, despotism and men of Richard Posner’s authoritarian bent. A guarantee that this totalist wants to demolish and replace with something altogether sinister. Perhaps now is a good time to start wondering why that is.
