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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's entirely irrelevant what a few people in a different country 250-odd years ago thought was its purpose in THEIR society. What we have to deal with is what its usefulness is in TODAY'S society, which is very different to that of the late 18th century.
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True, but as long as the constitution is not changed it still applies to our society (well, theirs anyway) today.