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A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory's core tenet--that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning--has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past. Yet originalist engagement with history is often deeply problemati

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Author
Jonathan Gienapp
Publisher
Yale University Press
Published
2024
Language
EN
ISBN
9780300265859
Category
law
Subjects
Law
Updated
2026-03-25

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