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WDMSO -
One reason to be an originalist...our founding fathers believed the freedoms spelled out in our founding documents, were self-evident, and given to us by God, and NOT something for the current leader to decide whether or not we really had the right to expect. If we let the current folks in DC decide what the Constitution means, then sometimes they will decide it means we have less liberty than it clearly states. The only way to guarantee those freedoms, is to make them absolute.
Why would anyone be comfortable letting people in DC decide what the Bill Of Rights really means?
As Scalia said, the Constitution isn't a legal opinion, it is a legally binding document. It's not carved in stone either, if we want to change it, there is a mechanism to do that.
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