"Originalism" is NOT a word & it certainly wasn't around when the Framers wrote the Constitution

[kpete]

"Originalism" is NOT a word, according to my dictionary, and it certainly wasn't around when the Framers wrote the Constitution, so all of Scalia's opinions must be scrapped as un-Webster-worthy.

And his (Scalia's) rigorous attention to the text of the Constitution and of laws has changed the way liberals as well as conservatives conceive of the role of the highest court. But it’s not clear how deeply the roots of his signature legal approach, constitutional originalism, have taken hold; one scholar points out that without being more willing to build agreement, Scalia paid a price in influence for his trademark intellectual independence. For all his firepower, he authored relatively few of the court’s landmark rulings, more often expressing himself in ferocious dissent. And in constantly attacking the legitimacy of his opponents, rather than just the merits of their arguments, he may have helped coarsen the public conversation around our most challenging issues.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/antonin-scalia-how-he-changed-america-213631