Xennial Memes
Screenshot of a transcript attributed to Ezra Klein. It recounts Larry Kramer's analogy: a boat built from a blueprint must be repaired over time, and insisting 200 years later that all repairs follow only the original blueprint gives a boat that sinks. It ends by saying originalism is disrespectful to the Founding Fathers.

Originalism Is a Boat Built From a Blueprint

A transcript excerpt uses a boat-and-blueprint analogy to mock originalism in constitutional law, a civics-class debate Xennials remember from school.

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Screenshot of a transcript attributed to Ezra Klein. It recounts Larry Kramer's analogy: a boat built from a blueprint must be repaired over time, and insisting 200 years later that all repairs follow only the original blueprint gives a boat that sinks. It ends by saying originalism is disrespectful to the Founding Fathers.

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