And? What do you think those rules he was referring to were? If you had any background in this area you would know it is the canons of construction to which he refers.

Blackstone is not a list of rules for HOW to interpret legal texts, it was a compilation of commentaries on what English Common Law WAS (and as such as an excellent source when engaging in the act of trying to determine what various terms in the U.S. Constitution which were lifted from English Common Law were understood to mean. That you can't grasp the distinction just underscores your lack of knowledge in this entire area.

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