The Framers’ Bloopers0

• CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court, Uncategorized
• January 12, 2014

The Constitution’s Framers were very great men, but they were not gods. They made mistakes. By “mistakes,” I’m not talking about matters of political judgment, such as how much to accommodate slavery. I mean drafting errors of the forehead-slapping kind. Consider first a matter of style: The Constitution in its final form was drafted by