Really enjoyed this piece on constitutional originalism after seeing the author on The Daily Show.
It always felt weird to me that Americans often seem beholden to what may have been in the minds of the Founding Fathers rather than the liberal ideas and principles enshrined in the constitution.
This piece exploring the very recent origin of the originalist doctrine as a conservative facade squares that circle for me.
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@rhys this seems kind of twisted and bizarre.
It seems to be an originalist argument against originalism. It seems to be saying originalism is a modern development by using originalist methods of analysis to look at originalism in the early days compared to the way originalism is talked about now.
So it seems self-defeating.
