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muriel_volestrangler

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4. According to my dictionary, it's been in use since 1980

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Feb 14, 2016, 08:27 PM

Feb 2016

1980 P. Brest in Boston Univ. Law Rev. 60 204

By ‘originalism’ I mean the familiar approach to constitutional adjudication that accords binding authority to the text of the Constitution or the intentions of its adopters.

One of the 4 quotes given actually talks about Scalia:
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Oct. 17/1

Justice Scalia, an outspoken advocate of textualism and originalism, has derided the Court's efforts to infer a right of reproductive ‘privacy’ from the Constitution's other protections of liberty.

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"Originalism" is NOT a word & it certainly wasn't around when the Framers wrote the Constitution [View all] kpete Feb 2016 OP

He read the constitution the way rightwing xtians read the bible, selectively and ignorantly randys1 Feb 2016 #1

Come on, English is a living language. malthaussen Feb 2016 #2

There is a hole Igel Feb 2016 #3

According to my dictionary, it's been in use since 1980 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2016 #4

heck, my 8th-grade poli sci class roleplayed the Constitutional Convention MisterP Feb 2016 #5