Throughout America's history there has been endless debate over what the framers of the constitution intended and how they would apply it to issues that didn't exist when it was originally written. And of course we can never know those answers because the framers are long gone. But in the first years of the US this was not the case. Did the courts ever take advantage of this resource? And did the framers ever take advantage of their status to speak out and try to influence constitutional opinion? Like for example, could Madison have de facto "overruled" a Supreme Court decision if he wanted by essentially saying, "Your interpretation is wrong and I would know because I wrote the damn thing!"