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The Argument for Originalism

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The Application of Moral Principles to Interrupted the Law Is Inevitable

Vene: It's impossible to really interpret the law in hard cases withoutapplying moral principles. He says that any idea that we can somehow divorce interpretation from moral reasoning is just false. Vene argues that originalism has built-in moral authority because self government has a moral authority, even if an individual legal outcome may not come out the way adrian vermul likes.

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