The Constitution’s Enemies Swing and Miss Again

 By Dan McLaughlin. National Review, September 2, 2024 - The New York Times is at it again. Book critic Jennifer Szalai published a long essay with the inflammatory title and subhead of “The Constitution Is Sacred. Is It Also Dangerous? One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.” It’s the usual collection of gripes about the functioning of the Electoral College and the Senate, of the sort that feature regularly in Democratic and media tantrums when they don’t get their way; willful misunderstandings of the motivations and methods of originalism; and arguments that the Constitution is hopelessly tainted by slavery — arguments that rest on a fair amount of mythologizing about how we got the Electoral College. (read it all)

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