The other thing that leftists and other pretend not to know about is the Federalist Papers.
For those not familiar, they are a group of articles/essays by 3 of the key founders of the USA prior to the ratification of the Constitution who were trying to convince the individual states (New York primarily) to order themselves into this new proposed union to be called the USA. The point is, the states were going to have to give up some liberty in accepting membership into the USA (Federal supremacy etc) and the FP were written to explain in more detail what they were getting and what they were giving up. Mostly trying to reassure they weren't signing on to another tyrannical gov't.
All one has to do is read them and several "controversial" constitutional rights become very clear what the framers intended.
There are plenty of other speeches and letters from the framers after the Constitution was ratified which similarly detail their thoughts but the FP are the most well-known and were created prior to ratification.
The other thing that leftists and other pretend not to know about is the Federalist Papers.
For those not familiar, they are a group of articles/essays by 3 of the key founders of the USA prior to the ratification of the Constitution who were trying to convince the individual states (New York primarily) to order themselves into this new proposed union to be called the USA. The point is, the states were going to have to give up some liberty in accepting membership into the USA (Federal supremacy etc) and the FP were written to explain in more detail what they were getting and what they were giving up. Mostly trying to reassure they weren't signing on to another tyrannical gov't.
All one has to do is read them and several "controversial" constitutional rights become very clear what the framers intended.
There are plenty of other speeches and letters from the framers after the Constitution was ratified which similarly detail their thoughts but the FP are the most well-known and were created prior to ratification.