Is the swingman retiring?

[*michaelsean*]

(03-12-2018, 12:09 PM)Au165 Wrote: How is an amendment original intent if it amended the original intent to something different (see amendments revoking other amendments after the fact)? That is the first level, the semantics side of it. The next level is simply the logical test of contradiction. By this belief we could amend the constitution to exactly the opposite of everything originally written and you would say that this was the original intent. If we created an amendment that ended amendments would that still be original intent? You are basically saying the original intent was strictly structure (making amendments) over content (what was in the original amendments), I have a hard time fathoming this was the intent of anyone. 

It was absolutely the intent or else it wouldn't be in there.  They didn't make it an easy process, but we can change anything we want through the amendment process, and it would still be original intent.  Their original intent was to lay out a framework for a new country, and that it be adjustable when the need arises.  You can't argue that amending the constitution wasn't original intent.  Therefore you can't be going against original intent by using them.