“Either the Constitution means what it says or it doesn’t. If it’s the latter then we are done for as a great nation.”
My dear God don’t say that or you will bring down the wrath of a few posters here who will bring up 150 year old court cases on different subjects ‘proving’ that those of us who believe that things like ‘intent’ and clearly written constitutional language don’t have any bearing whatsoever.
In other words, the framers didn’t mean what they said or wrote. Shame on you for thinking they did. After all, some here know better.
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Prior to Congress acting many of these clauses have no instantly discernible meaning.
One of the problem areas we have involves "original intent" ~ currently on FR threads we have folks getting exercised over the "Natural born citizen" clause by bringing in old cases at law ~ and attestations from books, etc. Congress can resolve the issue here simply by passing a law to implement some process of determining if a citizen was born naturally.
I fear those guys ruling out C-sections you know.