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damn right
You're damn right society and government have changed since the time of the Founders. They always knew it would be. That is why they provided for a process of constitutional amendment. The first twelve amendments were all ratified by 1804.
The next amendment was not ratified until after the Civil War. Now there are 27 in all, with numbers 13 through 27 having been ratified in a span of about 130 years.
Society changes, and laws have to change with society. Slavery was legal in the time of the Founders. Women were not allowed to vote. Do you wish to bring back slavery and tell women they have no say in self governance anymore?
As Thomas Jefferson himself said, "I willingly acquiesce in the institutions of my country, perfect or imperfect, and think it a duty to leave their modifications to those who are to live under them and are to participate of the good or evil they may produce. The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself." --Thomas Jefferson to John Hampden Pleasants, 1824. ME 16:29
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We reject Skurdal's argument that he is a "free man" exempt from the laws because he has "no contracts" with either the state or federal governments...No persons in Montana may exempt themselves from any law simply by declaring they do not consent to it applying to them...Accepting Skurdal's assertion of exempt status is an invitation to anarchy. We decline that invitation. - State v. Skurdal, Supreme Court of Montana, 235 Mont. 291, 767 P.2d 304 at 308 (1988).
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