I thought your first rule of honest Constitutional interpretation was to make an effort to gather the intent of the lawmakers from the text of the document. Why are you jumping over the text of the amendment to the letters of someone who was not even one of the lawmakers who gave legal effect to the amendment? Sigh. :^(
Grow up.
My first rule of honest constitutional interpretation is, as I apply common sense, to find out what basic reading skills tell me about a law.