The Founders of the Bill of Rights: Triangulating To Meaning

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In a message dated 10/18/2005 2:38:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
paul-finkelman at utulsa.edu writes:

I am not  sure exactly what Jim Henderson's point is, other than there is a 
"role" fo  rthe A-Fs.  I don't disagree with that.  
That is some part of my point for sure, and since we are in apparent  
agreement on it, I wonder why you phrase your opening in this way:   verbally, you 
seem to suspect I might be in the wings with a truncheon just  waiting for the 
opportunity to strike.  
 

Jim H.  seems to think there were "negotiations" of some kind in the writing 
fo the  BofR between the Feds and the Anti-Feds.  But there were none; the  
antifeds really did not participate inthe process of writing the BofR and many  
of them them (Henry, Mason for example) opposed the BofR.

Please, Paul, even a nod toward fairness or candor would require an  
admission that I did not suggest any such thing.  We read the same words,  parse the 
same alphabet.  It is beyond my comprehension how you could  derive that 
unfounded conclusion from my wondering whether examination of the  mind of framers, 
as though they faced such negotiations and where trying to make  the best of 
the situation for themselves and others, had any utility in getting  to meaning.
 
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ
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