[tacticalogic]

Excerpt from a letter by James Madison to Joseph Cabell:

1. The meaning of the Phrase "to regulate trade" must be sought in the general use of it, in other words in the objects to which the power was generally understood to be applicable, when the Phrase was inserted in the Constn.

Jackson's philosophy seems to be of the FDR "living document" school of thought.

[Ed Current]

Jackson and the article should be plain common Constitutional sense.

• Adhere to the text, or amend it.

• Let no one deceive you with emanating penumbras.