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The Federalist Papers
When anyone invokes the federalist papers as evidence of what every single founder thought of the constitution red lights should start blinking. John Jay, Hamilton, and Madison had radically different interpretations of the constitution, yet they put their differences aside to write the Federalists as one big constitutional sales pitch to the American people .
39 Delegates at the Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution last time I checked, taking the word of one of them as the opinion of the entire body is stupid to the extreme . . .