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2. It's fair to say my position prevailed on original intent. You conceded that my view is consistent with that of the framers of the 14th, while yours is not. You also failed to provide any evidence that the ratifiers agreed with your position or disagreed with mine. The fact remains that they knew the intent of its framers and voted in favor of it.
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Now I'm absolutely, positively outta here... ...I think!
No. In saying "framers" you're not distinguishing between DRAFTERS (Bingham and Howard) who wanted to add the Corfeld rights and whose whose intent is irrelevant and the RATIFIERS whose intent is the dispositive intent in construing the 14A.