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Originalism? In my NPR?? Hamilton is a delight, if I had a genie lamp in front of me I'd have the media quote him in relation to every topic of national controv
by homonculus1 7y ago
Originalism? In my NPR?? Hamilton is a delight, if I had a genie lamp in front of me I'd have the media quote him in relation to every topic of national controversy.
- happytoexplain 7y agoYou find their content usually derivative? Edit: I suddenly realized maybe "originalism" isn't some obscure synonym for "originality". My bad :)
- smacktoward 7y agoYep, in this context "originalism" refers to the philosophy that the way to answer Constitutional questions is to try to divine the original intent of the Founders who wrote it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism for more details. The opposite of originalism is the "living document" philosophy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution), which argues that the meaning of the document has to be interpreted by each generation in the light of their own experience.