Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
Like, just do a diff with the previous version, folks. "Our new system is mostly the British system we had before, except, just to be really very clear: (1) absolutely under no circumstances have a state religion and (2) no Kings" is like ... arguably the two biggest and most central ideas they had.
