...what the ratifiers understood themselves to be enacting must be taken
to be what the public of that time would have understood the words to
mean. It is important to be clear about this. The search is not for a
subjective intention. If someone found a letter from George Washington to
Martha telling her that what he meant by the power to lay taxes was not
what other people meant, that would not change our reading of the
Constitution in the slightest. -- Judge Robert H. Bork
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