The Corner isn't completely aroung the bend.

There's Peter Robinson, who has discovered this timely quote from Justice Joseph Story, who probably would have been sneered at by the BosWash conservative elites today:

"Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties. . . . They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings. The people make them; the people adopt them; the people must be supposed to read them, with the help of common sense."

That would suggest that they also aren't designed to give Judges some power of divination to interpret them in such a way as to extend their reach without submitting their additions to the ratification process.