I do not find it amazing that U.S. law has followed Calvin's Case since 1776That is an assertion. You know all the examples of cited cases where it didn't. (Such as Sailor's snug harbor)
You are just spewing bullshit, as usual. I am well aware of the Court's opinion in Inglis v. the Trustees of Snug Harbor. Sometime you should read the opinion of the court and search for where it did whatever it is you imagine it did, and then you can give a quote and/or citation to support your vivid imagination.
We see how modern courts twist and distort original intent according to their own preferences, so a court may or may not get something right, but one thing we know for sure is *THEY* didn't create the law. Legislatures did.
That is where an effort to understand the meaning must start. Not with courts, and especially not with courts over 100 years later. Contemporary courts would know better, so I would see more value in courts around the 1800s than the 1890s.