” Hahha! I heard the professors debate about Committee on Style during the Clinton impeachment hearing. That was painful. Professor McDonald blew them out of the water. The transcripts I find on it fail to do him justice.”
I’m sorry I missed it.
The gist of McDonald’s remarks were simple — the Committee Of Style was painted by Lawrence Tribe, Alan Dershowitz [sic], and others as meaningless, that the words prior to Style had greater meaning. So the Constitution we look lack is not as important as an earlier draft.
But according to McDonald, the Committee Of Style was not just flowery poets. They helped refine the wording, and all of their changes had to be approved.