The founding fathers can state it as they please, but they do not have the authority over the entire constitution anymore, because they’re dead. Jefferson admitted that the nation is for the living, and the wishes of the dead are not our basis for law, only the documents we keep. As such, even when its creators had a different interpretation, we can still pivot the interpretation within its written leeway as necessary, because the constitution is built to evolve. We are not chained to the ideals of the dead, we emerge FROM them, and make our own changes using their opinions as an understanding of the past. A thunderstorm and the sunny day are widely different and objectively separate in their own ways, but laws and interpretations of them are subjective, there’s a large reach of what could be allowed when trying to understand what it should or shouldn’t mean in the legal aspect. It’s not a simple one or the other, but a series of shades of the same color, and we just decide what that color actually is by our own interpretation.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
You think the constitution is a "living, breathing," document, then. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The States ratified the Constitution on the explicit condition that the federal government would only have those powers explicitly spelled out in the contract they made among themselves. The government is the agent of the States, created by the States for the benefit of the States, and that agent was created in the contract on the explicit understanding that if it went beyond those powers the ratifying States gave to it, the States had every right to withdraw from the contra… Read more
