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The fact of the matter is the constitution is a vague enough document to justify anything you want with enough legal hand wringing. Roe v. Wade was based on a privacy protection. For decades the Supreme Court's opinion was that the 2nd amendment only justified very limited gun rights. The constitution has been claimed to both support, and limit literal slave rights.

There are even openly different ways that people approach "interpreting" the constitution.

Anyone who works with documents that "define" a contract or API should understand just how vague and useless the constitution is as a literal reference document. That's why the same words have been used to "justify" countless contrary opinions over just 250 years



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