The Theory of Original Public Meaning

Sally Kohn: Why do we care what random olks walking down the street thought when it comes to this corpus linguistic stuff in the first place? Kohn: I'll give you just the sort of one inch deep answer, and then actually, for a much more comprehensive answer, i'm going to refer you to a six circuit case. It's hard to use intent, at least in my view, because you have all o these different legislators a you have the president as an actor as well. And so the best way to do that is to figure out simply what the ordinary words would have meant to everybody.