About the US constitution: Why don't Democrats, in response to insane Tea Bagger constitutional originalists, say:
Hey, you know what? The constitution was a great founding document. But the world was different then. For one thing, the entire population of the United States was less than half the population of Phoenix, Arizona. In 1776, assuming you could travel 120 miles in a day (which would require you to switch your team of horses 4 times), it would take more than ten days to go from one end of the original 13 colonies to the other. Today a single person can drive that distance in one day. The postal service depended on slaves to carry mail from one plantation to the next. Really? Yes, really (a hogshead of tobacco was the penalty for failure to deliver mail to the next plantation).
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