• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    It’s very funny to me how much of US law discussion is arguing the intent of what some slavers wrote 250 years ago.

    Is it even worse in Europe? Are people holding up the Magna Carta and going “see, it was never intended for widows to remarry”

    • bearboiblake@pawb.social
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      21 hours ago

      The reality is that a lot of that law discussion is bullshit, the Supreme Court infamously just picks and chooses constitutional interpretations to support whatever goes in line with whatever they wanted to do in the first place. The more you learn about the Supreme Court, the more obvious it becomes.

      I can’t speak for the rest of Europe, but we don’t have anything similar here, but we don’t have a written constitution.