One way that some writers try to discredit the U.S. Constitution is to assert that the document’s original meaning discriminated against women.
Thus, a 2011 Time Magazine cover story claimed that “the [Constitution’s] framers … gave us the idea … that women were not allowed to vote.” An Oct. 13, 2020, article in The Hill added: “The very fact that [Amy Coney] Barrett accepted the president’s nomination means that there are limits to her originalism. She clearly doesn’t believe that being a woman disqualifies her from sitting on the Supreme Court.”
