Again on #history & #originalism: @jbouie on amendments as re-readings vs /original public meaning/.
“...even if it had a singular meaning, ...still...choice about which #Constitution ...one written to secure the interests of a narrow elite or one written for the sake of us all.”
Must read 2017 #Originalism critique from @TheGNapp:
originalists vs. historians:
“from empirical to methodological. ...no longer over historical knowledge of the Founding era.”
BUT over what methods needed to identify original meaning of historical text. http://www.processhistory.org/originalism-history/">https://www.processhistory.org/originali...
Also see @JRakove’s contrast (2015) btw #history‘s goal of complexity vs. #Originalism‘s of fixity.
“Anyone who thinks he can establish conditions of linguistic fixation without taking that turbulent set of events into account is pursuing a fool’s errand.”
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5157&context=flr">https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewc...
And, more on #History & #Constitution #Originalism from @JRakove in @PostOutlook pointing out the paradox that the framers themselves were not originalists ... does “public meaning” ultimately collapse on the very terms of its own methodology?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/originalism-constitution-founders-barrett/2020/10/16/1906922e-0f33-11eb-8a35-237ef1eb2ef7_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/o...
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