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Originally Posted by Jerrek
Clearly, it isn't, because it is being brought up today in courts. We know what the Constitution says, and we know what the Federalist Papers say, and we know what they meant. Yet the Supreme Court ruled differently. And that is the issue at hand. I fail to see how you can just say "it is irrelevant." It isn't!
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But the law is the law, you can't just say, I think it means this because the person who wrote it would have been inclined to do this.
If someone in 10 B.C wrote a law that said, anyone who commits a crime must be fairly punished. They probably would have meant a stoning. We may use the same law but do we interoperate it this way?