Constitutional Originalism

Here's Univ. of Chicago political scientist Stephen Holmes: "To satisfy rivalinterests and muster majority support, participants at the Federal Convention incorporated conflicting and ambiguous provisions into the Constitution..."

In other words, often there was no original intent other than "Let's get the damned thing passed!"

Comments

  1. And the part where they all agreed what "natural born citizen" meant.

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  2. Exactly, Gene! Keep the pressure on. Constitutional sentimentalism harms the cause of liberty.

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