... to master; in short, we have the read the mystery story backwards. The Conventionwas not a seminar in analytic philosophy or linguistic analysis. Commerce was commerce-and if different interpretations of the word arose, later generations could worry about the problem of definition. There was a good deal of definitional pluralism with respect to the problems the delegates did discuss, but when we move to the question ... of extrapolated intentions, we enter the realm of spiritualism. The Constitution, was not an apotheosis of "constitutionalism," a triumph of architectonic genius; it was...

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