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I notice that you attach great importance to what the Founders “dreamed”, or didn’t dream.  Is that a term of art in the law?   The founders were fully aware that they could not conceive (or dream, if you prefer) of every issue that would confront their descendants.  The genius of the Constitution is precisely that it is an instrument of governance devised in the eighteenth century with sufficient elasticity to serve as the foundation of law and government in the twenty-first century.  Most of us never dreamed that we would live to see the right of same sex couples to marriage affirmed.  Many in my grandfather’s generation never dreamed they would see the right of persons of different races to marry affirmed. The greatness of our country is not that these expressions of bigotry lasted as long as they did, but rather that we have a system that finally righted the wrongs. The United States really is a great country, but not a perfect one.