Kevin_Kennedy
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I'm not sure. Why would you? Unless you thought the past 200 years of Constittuional interpretation was all meaningless, but not sure why you would think that.
If the past 200 years of constitutional interpretation has gone against the original intent of the Constitution it is meaningless, and it is in the works of the founders, such as the Federalist Papers, that we find more information about what the founders originally intended the Constitution to mean.
Sorry, but this is nonsense. The founders wrote a vague document so that people could interpret it in different ways. If they wanted to spell out something in crystal clear detail, they could have done so. They knew how to write. Their opinions as expressed in documents other than the Constitution are irrelevant.
No, they most certainly are not irrelevant. They made their intentions clear in these documents.