I would think the american constitution is just as vague and open to interpretations as any document of the sort. Which makes it seem grand until the details have to be dealt with in the real world. Know that saying "the devil is in the details"? Enter amendments. The precise interpretation is exactly the point about such a document. It says little in itself apart from grand phrases, unless it is read, interpreted and yes, read between the lines. That's what lawyers do after all, interpret the written word. Neither will I grant them particularly gifted minds, other than being seasoned statesmen and revolutionary leaders with a degree of common sense and a general idea how the country should be run and created based on new ideas at the time.
For someone with such a revolutionary bent as you seem to have sometime, I dont think you should waste your time admiring the founding fathers too much, as it would be the result of their system you would seek to overthrow. Today is not what they thought, well, that's how it turned out. That's empiry for you.
Peace
Dan
"YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
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For someone with such a revolutionary bent as you seem to have sometime, I dont think you should waste your time admiring the founding fathers too much, as it would be the result of their system you would seek to overthrow. Today is not what they thought, well, that's how it turned out. That's empiry for you.
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965