Is the author actually claiming that noncitizens have a constitutional right to vote?
That Federal power is unlimited?
I don’t think the author knows what he wants his point to be.
I see his article as pointless, and typical leftist drivel.
This is the former dean of University of Hawaii law school.
This is just plain silly. The “people” was understood at the time as the “populus,” i.e. the citizens that made up nation, not merely as individual persons without regard to their relation to the nation. (See the famous Roman abbreviation “SPQR”: the Senate and People of Rome.) Anyone that had the same classical education that the founders had would have understood this.
He appears to be attempting to make a significant difference out of nothing.