A new article by Jeremy M. Christiansen (forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy) sheds new light on a neglected aspect of the originalism debate. Whereas academic discussions ...

(“A Fly in Originalism’s Ointment”). It is no coincidence that Sullivan quoted the most famous line from Justice White’s dissent in Roe v. Wade. He believes that in this area of ...

Originalism is the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted and can be changed only by constitutional amendment. Many of the separate opinions in the case ...

The Supreme Court’s preferred method of interpreting the Constitution is originalism, which requires judges to abide by the original public meaning of the constitutional text. This is often more ...