' It should be interpreted as it was written nothing more, nothing less."
That is the way it should be! Whoever came up with the idea of "flexible constitution" should be deported, or if not, be defrocked as a Justice or Judge and thrown out!!!'
How does that square with the idea that orginally man/men were white, male and over 21?
That's why the Constitution has a provision to change it by amendment - not by interpretation.
How does that square with the idea that orginally man/men were white, male and over 21?
I believe the other references of the laws that referenced the Black Men/Women were superceded by the passing of the Emancipation Proclomantion and the Civil War. Men /Women are referenced as Men/Women regardless of their race.
It squares with the proper method of changing the Constitution: Amendments.