[curiosity]

In deciding what the amendment meant to those voting on it, and what it should continue to mean, remarks made on the floor about it by the authors have tremendous significance.

There's a reason Justice Scalia and other originalists ignore legislative history in their jurisprudence.

[aruanan]

In deciding what the amendment meant to those voting on it, and what it should continue to mean, remarks made on the floor about it by the authors have tremendous significance.

There's a reason Justice Scalia and other originalists ignore legislative history in their jurisprudence.

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." -- James Madison, primary author of the Constitution.