re: #196 HappyWarrior

I always thought there was an arrogance to conservative judicial philosophy. The thought that you can use a 19th century mindset/approach and apply them to 21st century problems and reality. Sure perhaps Jefferson did intend for a smaller federal government but he also didn’t account for that the country is a lot different today than when he died in 1826 too.

More like late 18th, and at that, nobody having previously set up a government quite like that, they were taking kind of a flier.

But then, remember - the same folks want to substitute a 4000 year old creation myth for actual scientific findings, so wanting to run a modern industrial nation of 340,000,000 people EXACTLY according to rules set up by rich white landowners in the late 18th Century to govern 4 Million souls in an agrarian former colony is par for the course.