Originally Posted by
motorfirebox
There's strong evidence within the Constitution itself that the authors intended that it, to some degree, grow and change with the times. Article 1 Section 9 prohibits Congress from restricting the slave trade--the "importation of persons", to use the exact wording--until 1808. This is pretty clearly a recognition of the fact that public views and the national sense of morality can and will--and, in the opinion of many founding fathers, should--change over time, and that the laws of the nation can and should be modified to reflect those changes.
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