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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“…the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally different from stories that denied their fictive nature and claimed divine origin, such as the Ten Commandments. Like the U.S. Constitution, the Ten Commandments endorsed slavery… unlike the U.S. Constitution, the Ten Commandments failed to provide any amendment mechanism…”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari