@Davriellelouna I’ve seen this legal framework before. It’s called Originalism, and Originalism is voodoo bullshit. It’s basically, “Because Washington enslaved people, literally anything that doesn’t explicitly say otherwise must mean the same thing.” It’s pre-determined, self-fulfilling, completion-backwards legal forensics, and I say again, IT IS BULLSHIT.

How do I know? Not just on its own obvious terms, but because the very same people will say the opposite when it suits them. They lie.