Wade). Despite the moderation of many of its practitioners, originalism can be a radical philosophy. Insisting on the original meaning of the written Constitution can profoundly unsettle the ...

As law professor Lawrence Solum has explained (and as I have attempted to show in this essay), “The core of originalism is based on common sense about the meaning of the constitutional text and ...

while the term originalism arose in the constitutional context to counter living-constitutionalism (and other non-interpretive methods of inventing constitutional meaning). As Barrett explained ...

The year 2024 was notable for many things, including Donald Trump’s re-election. Last year’s most significant legal event was ...

Originalism is the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted and can be changed only by constitutional amendment. Many of the separate opinions in the case ...