Quote Originally Posted by Mick Jagger View Post
"To interrogate the legislature to decide particular disputes [regarding the meaning of a legal instrument], is not only endless, but affords great room for partiality and oppression." The "most natural and probable signs" of the the will of the legislature at the time it made a legal instrument "are the words, the context, the subject matter, the effects and consequence, or the spirit and reason of the law." (see Blackstone's Commentaries)
Thanks for yet again misunderstanding my post. I answered a point you directed at me, to wit: "I don't believe you'll ever be able to correctly, or rather objectively, ascertain the will of the lawmakers at the time they made the Constitution." I showed you why your assumption was incorrect, but did not say then or ever that such writings would or should trump the law.

Here's an idea. How about you type up some of your own thoughts instead of repeatedly suggesting that we "see Blackstone's Commentaries?" Give the control and V keys a break and start using some of the other ones.

And if you get around to it, I'm still waiting on any supporting evidence that the nation was founded as a religious nation.