[DoodleDawg]

You are forcing onto the verbiage more specificity than the actual words convey.

I'm reading the words as written.

I'm not going to address your foray over into the Confederate Constitution because it does not have the slightest effect on what the US constitution said.

Of course you're not. Not at all surprising.

[DiogenesLamp]

I'm reading the words as written.

You probably start out that way, and then you add your own personal preferences to what they mean instead of looking at the context in which they were created.

Here we go round in circles.