- a different way to get at this is to ask yourself what *is* a constitution? is it a legal contract or is it a political document? is meaning singularly reducible to text or does meaning emerge from text and context?
- the constitution says you must be 35 to be eligible to serve as president. now, let’s say a presidential nominee was born on february 29, 1972, a leap year. and let’s say they were running in 2024. now, technically, they would only be 13. you could say they were ineligible. but that’s stupid! (1)
- Chief Justice Marshall, in McCullough v Maryland (1819).
