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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
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REALLY weird that all those Originalists missed that point!
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How generous of you to consider their "originalist" viewpoint as sincere rather than something that at the time conveniently lined up with their undisclosed priorities.
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Well, "generous" or "gigantically facetious," one or the other.
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I've only just met you and I like you already.