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What a legal rule means is always determined by the political assumptions of the person applying it.
This is why I have always maintained that constitutional "originalists" are all deluded. There is no possible way that most law can be interpreted in the same way "The Framers" would have interpreted it, especially since there was clearly disagreement about the role of government within the ranks of those men at the time. "Judicial activism" is a ruse put forth by the right wing propaganda mill. All justices who rule on constitutional matters are activists; they wouldn't be doing their job otherwise. How are we to settle matters of, say, internet law with original intent? Nothing is, nor ever was, nor ever could be politically neutral.