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Originally Posted by smooth
the problem, of course, is who the heck are these "writers?"
I would quote a huge section from Feinman's book, Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System, but I think I may just provide a reference: p. 19-22.
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Pick up that book and leaf through those 4 pages so I don't have to type them, please.
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OK I will the next time I'm at the library. But until then I am answering the original poster's question of why we should pay attention to what these guys said, because I believe we need to know what they were thinking in order to interpret the laws (constitution, bill of rights) that they wrote. I also believe that many of us trust their judgement more than today's politically charged courts and polititians. Like I said, I'm not a lawyer and this type of thinking may not make legal sense to one schooled in the law.