"the ratification process was completely public."

Irrelevant, because "to even submit the matter to a vote represents a grievous assault on the very idea of rights".

American independence was achieved as the result of a war begun in part over a 2c tax on stamps (they understood well the concept of "slippery slope"), and not half a decade after it was over, a bunch of belly-slithering patrician reptiles gathered together in the aftermath to smuggle in "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect Taxes" to subject everyone right back under the thumb of the Cabal. They were thieving tyrants right from the outset.

"the ratification process was completely public."

Irrelevant, because "to even submit the matter to a vote represents a grievous assault on the very idea of rights".

American independence was achieved as the result of a war begun in part over a 2c tax on stamps (they understood well the concept of "slippery slope"), and not half a decade after it was over, a bunch of belly-slithering patrician reptiles gathered together in the aftermath to smuggle in "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect Taxes" to subject everyone right back under the thumb of the Cabal. They were thieves.