Constitutional Law
Apr. 19, 2017
The elephant in the originalism room
I am no constitutional lawyer, but even I know that originalism depends on a large conceit. The conceit is that we can rightly interpret the Constitution and laws by limiting their meaning to what their adopters meant at the time.
Dan Lawton
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Georgetown Univ Law Center
The views expressed here are his own.
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