Instead, you wrote some typical conservative nonsense. Old dog, new tricks, whatever.

The whole reason we have a constitution, (and not just a lot of law) is to protect the people from themselves, so that the winds of popularity don't become tyranny. If you want to respect the "intent of the founders" you should also respect that the founders would never in a million years have allowed the common people to vote on anything as important as "who gets which rights."

That's why we have a constitution. That's why we have justices. If Scalia's interpretation of the founder's original intent was correct, than his job would not exist.