Am I alone in finding the American tendency to justify their arguments by invoking the Founding Fathers bizarre? Noone in France would ever say :'This is a good idea because Napoleon/Danton/whoever you want said this and that on the topic, which I interpret as supporting my general argument.'
Well, if the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had a single, written constitution or countries like France and Germany didn't keep throwing out their history and creating new governments every few generations, I suspect you'd have more reverence to the views of the founders when determining the meaning of constitutional text.
