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Should SCOTUS Focus on the Original Meaning of the Constitution?

Open to Debate

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Originalism: A Dynamic Idea

The idea of originalism as a dynamic idea in the conversation is really only about 40 years old. How do you figure out what are the methods for figuring out what the words meant with clarity and some high degree of certainty? Are you going to dictionaries? Are you reading what people were saying at the time? I mean, literally, how do you determine what the general public would have thought?"

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