Constitutional Law
Apr. 5, 2017
A legal historian takes issue with originalism
Ultimately, the Constitution should be interpreted as people at the time would have interpreted documents of this sort.
Mike Rappaport
Professor of Law
University of San Diego School of Law
Mike Rappaport is Darling Foundation professor of law at the University of San Diego, where he also serves as director of the Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism.
There have been a couple of blog posts responses this week to Boston College Law School professor Mary Sarah Bilder's op ed on originalism and the Constitution published in the Boston Globe. That includes one by Georgetown Law professor Larry Solum and one by Northwestern University constitutional law professor John McGinnis.
I don't mean to pile on, but there are some important questions that remain to be addressed.
Bilder is an important law professor who is also a l...
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