And the intention of the framers was?
Again, we allow it to be done. If we were to put our foot on the neck of the Federal Government and force them to adhere to their role, it wouldn’t be a problem. We have allowed the feds to grow into the leviathan it has become. It is all our fault because we did not put a stop to it.
That is the point I’m trying to make. You can quibble over the finer points of grammar and whatnot in a court of law for eternity but in the end, we are responsible for letting them run roughshod over us.
Very possibly bending to the terms of their potential lenders. Read the link. It's not what you think.
If we were to put our foot on the neck of the Federal Government and force them to adhere to their role, it wouldn’t be a problem.
While I agree with you in principle, there has never been an attempt to fix either the Supremacy Clause or the manner of treaty ratification. The people had that within their power all right, but they were never informed of the problem, to which they "allowed" the added insult of the language of the citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment.