"He criticized Diaz for asking whether an offense was punishable by death at the founding, which has never been a basis for depriving a convicted person of constitutional rights, and for relying on two losing arguments at the origin of the Constitution (you have to go to Diaz to find them – the Dissent of the Minority in Pennsylvania (1787) and Samuel Adams' failed proposal for an arms guarantee in the Massachusetts convention (1788))."
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