Ivy, here is a news flash. the Founding Fathers did not believe in "original intent." The proof is that they provided for a process to amend the constitution (which only allowed white male property owners to vote, governors to appoint senators and slavery). As Michael Corleone said, "tempi cambi." The founders were in favor of amendments. Get over it.
Moreover, those framers of the Constitution, who happened to be congressmen, stood mute in the formative years when Congress discussed and had to iron out apparent conflicting provisions in the Constitution. Madison especially followed this practice and even sealed his historic notes from the Constitution for thirty years, lest subsequent congresses relied too heavily on the framers' opinions and not on their own sensibilities concerning a working government under the Constitution.
