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Originalism 101

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

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Originalism Is Always the Way They Did Law

The Supreme Court has not always been good at doing originalism, Scalia says. Dred Scott and post-reconstruction is a good example of how the court didn't do it properly. But he argues that if you look at any early opinion from the Marshall Court, pre-Marshall Court even, they were all originalists.

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