“No one understands the Constitution like Ted Cruz”
That particular statement, which I have seen over and over, is laughable and is also complete BS — boilerplate rolled out for a campaign. Cruz, it implies, has access to a wisdom that the rest of us are not even aware of.
The authors of the Constitution wrote at length about the Constitution being written in order for it to be understood.
The Constitution does NOT require some appointed “expert” to tell us what it means. It is NOT written in legalese. It is written in straight-forward, simple English.
Lawyers detest anything written in such a fashion, and they will toil in trying to make it appear that it is a mystery only they can unlock.
These days, when somebody says they “know the constitution,” it’s code for knowing the body of interpretive law that SCOTUS has overlaid. The constitution read on its face has been nearly totally subverted. I mean, it is understandable, sure. But the government doesn’t abide by it, except by sophistry and pedantry.