Neutrally applying the Constitution, as its provisions were originally understood, will tend to produce conservative rather than liberal results. That’s my claim over at Bloomberg Opinion, and it’s one that explains, I argue, a lot about our constitutional politics.

What I mean is not that the Constitution requires the implementation of every sentence of the latest Republican platform or blocks everything in the Democratic one. The Constitution, on any reasonable reading, is clearly compatible with a lot of liberal political victories. But it also, much of the time, pushes in a direction that contemporary conservatives find more congenial than liberals. . . .