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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Silliness of Originalism
This tidbit from a law professor working on a bio of someone sometimes seen as the Madison of the Fourteenth Amendment is but one more example of the subject. See also, long articles like this, which provide disputed analysis of one Framer's views. It is a shame so many rely on this angels on a pin method as authoritative.