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- Title
THE ENDLESS ALLURE AND ULTIMATE FOLLY OF DETERMINING THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE CONSTITUTION: HISTORY, LAW, POLITICS, AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING.
- Authors
Estes, Todd
- Abstract
The article focuses on the Ratification debates of 1787-1788 of the United States Constitutional convention to considers flaws in the theory of Originalism, the notion first forwarded by U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese in 1985 that federal laws can be interpreted with an understanding of the Founding Fathers' "original intention." Topics considered include accounts of political debates published in American newspapers, the compiled essays known as "The Federalist," and the voting margins of states' ratification of the Constitution.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ORIGINALISM (Constitutional interpretation); STATUTORY interpretation; CONSTITUTIONAL law; CONSTITUTIONAL conventions; FEDERALIST; HISTORY of the United States Constitution; UNITED States politics &; government, 1783-1789; HISTORY
- Publication
XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 2014, Vol 11, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1544-9009
- Publication type
Article