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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
allowing 'interpretation' is exactly the reason why we have the political divide in this country. The founders were extremely clear when it was written. All evidence from that era concludes it's truth. It took dozens of debates to get the words just right for the citizens of all 13 states to ratify it.
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About some things, yes, they were very specific--loquitor's 35 year old president example is pretty hard to interpret to mean anything else. Other things are (deliberately!) vague and demand a contemporary mind to apply to contemporary times. And the existence of an amendment process tells us exactly how "strict constructionist" our SCOTUS was intended to be. Which is to say: not.