Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@michaelbd @willwilkinson @DamonLinker So, too, was their non-personhood. The Establishment Clause interpretation that Will is proposing — blocking individuals from using the power of the state from impose moral views on other adult humans — would have ended chattel slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@michaelbd @willwilkinson @DamonLinker "Adult humans" there is meant literally, not metaphysically. You can argue that this is anachronistic, but so too is the entire exercise of trying to tar a legal argument formulated for the present context by saying it might have had bad consequences 150 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org