For all the academic analysis of means, it is the end that is most important. Either the provisions of our Constitutions are consistent with the laws of Nature and Nature’s God or they aren’t. Either the laws passed by our legislators are consistent with the Constitution or they are not. Either our judges serve with integrity or they do not.
The republican means of textualism, originalism, and whatever arbitrary basis the Democrats choose today are only means. The problem is that the Democrats reject the laws of Nature and Nature’s God as an end and the Republicans too often sound like St. Augustine when he prayed to be chaste, but tomorrow.