Who's should I use? There are three that are active right now: yours, mine (the same as Madison's), and inquests. There may be four or five, if we had more posters.
If I am to answer your question, which am I to use?
Are you interpreting their words to try and determine what their intent was, or "
The "original intent" means nothing unless it was meant to convey the "sole intent". I see nothing in the Commerce Clause where correcting injustices is the "sole" intent. I see nothing in Madison's letter or anywhere else where he says it is the "sole" intent. Do you?
If a clause may constitutionally be used for 10 different intents, who cares what the original one was?
I don't see you digging into the "original intent" behind the meaning of "arms" in the second amendment. That the "original intent" of the Founding Fathers was to prevent the federal government from infringing on their single-shot muskets and single-shot pistols. So, therefore, those are the only weapons protected from infringement today.
But when it comes to the Commerce Clause though, regulate only means removing injustices, commerce only means goods, among the several states only means interstate commerce -- even though those definitions do not appear in the U.S. Constitution.
When you start having to beg questions about your question begging, you're getting pretty far down the rabbit hole.
Right here:
"... and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government,
Now, you can ignore the definition of "rather than" and substitute your own, but we will continue to point out that you are corrupting the English language in doing so.