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You just don't get it, do you? Or rather, you don't WANT to get it because it's as plain as day to everyone else and it flies in the face of your precious theories. This is like discussing evolution with a Young Earther! :roll:
Since he wasn't the only signatory he is not the only and last source for it's interpretation.
The constitution stands on it's own by it's own words as does every other contract ever written. No ONE signatory of a contract can decide what is and isn't meant by the contract, only the courts have that power.
To top it off, Hamilton, which was also a signatory, interprets it differently - so quit acting like Madison is the one and only source or opinion that matters. Madison wasn't the King of America and he doesn't get to dictate from the grave what the constitution means. Get over it!
Hamilton lived only until 1804 when he was shot to death, ...Madison lived until 1836 and wrote on the Constitution almost to his death, and wrote many pieces of work on it.