re: #82 calochortus

If I recall correctly, the ink was barely dry on the Constitution before the men who wrote the thing started debating about what, exactly, it meant. If only they had Scalia to explain it to them.

Another historical pet peeve I have is to lump the Founders in as one group and I will also point out that some of the Founders thought a Constitution was too “intrusive.” And I’ll point out also for all their fears of “big government”, guys like Sam Adams and Patrick Henry were fine with it when they felt their privilege was threatened during things like Shays Rebellion and later the Whiskey Rebellion.