You're right Kly. As I pointed out above and you addressed, the fact that the Constituion's ratification conventions generated several hundred amendments illustrates that many people had differing interpretations of the Constitution's provisions.

Sustantive due process is here to stay and engenders complaints only when one does not agree with the decision. I am sure that there were plenty of southern slave owners who applauded Roger Taney's substantive due process opinion in Scott v. Sanford.

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