Cowboyway: “Where is that in the Constitution? My copy doesn’t seem to have that. ”
It comes from the link I provided in my post.
It is a famous letter from Madison on this very subject.
It expresses the idea more directly than any other I’ve seen, but here’s the key point: no founder ever contradicted Madison ‘ s words.
That makes them indisputably Founders’ Original Intent.
Of course, in your own wisdom, you may well decide to reject Founders’ Original Intent as your starting point for understanding the Constitution.
But Founders ‘ Original Intent is the Conservative point of view, so if you reject one, you’ve also rejected the other, FRiend.
Really? Do you consider Thomas Jefferson a Founder?:
"Besides, if it should become the great interest of those nations to separate from this, if their happiness should depend on it so strongly as to induce them to go through that convulsion, why should the Atlantic States dread it? But especially why should we, their present inhabitants, take side in such a question?…The future inhabitants of the Atlantic & Missipi [sic] States will be our sons. We leave them in distinct but bordering establishments. We think we see their happiness in their union, & we wish it. Events may prove it otherwise; and if they see their interest in separation, why should we take side with our Atlantic rather than our Missipi descendants? It is the elder and the younger son differing. God bless them both, & keep them in union, if it be for their good, but separate them, if it be better."---letter to John C. Breckinridge,Aug. 12, 1803
"Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederacies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the western confederacy will be as much our children & descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty & the desire to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power."---letter to To Dr. Joseph Priestley, Jan. 29, 1804
I think Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, is completely in line with Original Intent, as am I. It's you False Causers that have distorted the original intent of the Constitution.
Philosophical question for you, professor: do you believe that maintaining the union is more important that individual liberty?
But Founders ' Original Intent is the Conservative point of view, so if you reject one, you've also rejected the other, FRiend.
The driving force behind the Constitution was individual liberty and removing the yoke of tyranny. If you answer yes to the question posed above then you've rejected original intent and conservative viewpoint.
BTW, I'm not your FRiend or friend.