It is woven into the law to the extent that courts will usually defer to legislative intent when enforcing and apply statutory law. Intent can usually be found in the annotated codes (committee, advisory notes, etc.)

Felix Frankfurter, one of the great supremes throught that framer intent was irrelevent. Current state of affairs and the assocated impacts should be the driving force.

This only forestalls the issue because committee notes and the like are only persuasive authority. Intent can still be open to interpretation.

I agree with Frankfurter in part. I do think intent lays down the principle, which should endure. The rules in carrying out the rules should be and are subject to change as time and circumstances change.


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Isn't intent intimately woven into law, court decisions, verdicts, etc? I believe so. Therefore, intent is highly relevent. This is more directed to Mike, but you are more apt to address this.
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