03-12-2018, 12:38 PM
(03-12-2018, 12:29 PM)michaelsean Wrote: You think including amendments as part of original intent is stretching it? I'm speaking of a more liberal way of viewing the constitution than you at this point. I'm saying original intent is that we change the constitution as we deem necessary through the amendment process. How are you arguing against that?
No I am saying that classifying any amendment beyond what was written originally to be included as original intent is stretching it. By the very use of the word original it references what was there first not what was subsequently changed to what was there first. There can be the intent of whoever wrote later amendments but normally original intent, in my experience, is left to those original amendments because it is an exercise in history and linguistics to what the words on the paper actually meant.
Side note: This is now my third time asking you this question, If we amended the constitution to end amendments would that be original intent?
