Common sense isn't.
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Another error has been in ascribing to the intention of the Convention which formed the Constitution an undue ascendancy in expounding it. Apart from the difficulty of verifying that intention, it is clear, that if the meaning of the Constitution is to be sought out of itself, it is not in the proceedings of the body that proposed it, but in those of the State Conventions, which gave it all the validity and authority which it possesses. |
~ Letter to N.P. Trist, December, 1831 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 211) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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