Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "BREAKING: Appeals court hits Trump with ruling he’s been dreading" video.
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_The Federalist" is not law. And the articles comprising it were written by three out of some 54 delegates to the Constitutional Convention that drafted the Constitution. And, as they were written outside Congress, Congress have never declared them as being official documents.
And those articles, published in newspapers, were admitted to be an ADVERTISING campaign designed to SELL the Constitution.
Moreover, there were three other delegates, on the other end of the spectrum, who refused to sign the Constitution because they, as anti-Federalists, rejected it.
The right-wing crackpots have been waving The Federalist as some sort of ideological "bible" since at latest the 1990s. But there are problems, in addition to the above, with that which is illiteracy. Hamilton wrote in "Federalist No. 84":
"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. . . ."
I doubt any of those who wave The Federalist as their "argument" have actually bothered to read it.
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