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.

I was involved in the rewrite of a fraternity chapter’s constitution once. Because of my knowledge of history and having dealt with legalistic garbage of this sort while a chapter officer I insisted on, and spearheaded, the development of an accompanying document that explained the general spirit and intention of the various clauses of the document.

Not that it ended up helping when stuff happened a few years later.