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Rethinking Originalism

Original intent for liberals (and for conservatives and moderates, too).

"Should constitutional interpreters embrace the document's original intent or evade it? Several leading liberal scholars are urging Americans to choose Door No. 2, because the original-intent game is doomed to reach intolerably conservative—indeed, reactionary—results. But is it? And once we reject that game, what are the proper legal rules to play by?"