Simple-Minded Originalism

Alexander, Lawrence

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1235722

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Simple-Minded Originalism

Larry Alexander

University of San Diego School of Law

August 18, 2008

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-067

Abstract:
In this essay I defend the unfashionable, maligned, and ridiculed view that interpretation of the Constitution is a search for its authorially-intended meaning, and that constitutional interpretation is no different in this respect from the interpretation of shopping lists, toy assembly instructions, and ordinary conversations.

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Keywords: Adler & Bix, legal philosophy and jurisprudence, constitutional interpretation

JEL Classification: K00, K10

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Date posted: August 19, 2008

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Alexander, Larry, Simple-Minded Originalism (August 18, 2008). San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 08-067. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1235722 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1235722

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