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• Title: History for the Non-Originalist (Panel II: Original and Historical Truth) (Federalist Society 2002 Symposium on Law and Truth)
• Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 292 KB

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It has always seemed a perversion of language to use a name to signify what something is not, rather than what it is. (1) A name is related, in some way, to understanding and to mastering, indeed to being human, as suggested by the Old Testament's delegation to man to name every living creature. (2) Yet tot those of us who believe that the meaning of the Constitution includes more than what any group of persons thought or intended in 1789, a name is an honor that has eluded us. We have long borne the stigma of identification by negative appellation. Whoever it was, who first used the term "non-originalist," she did us no favors. This non-name concedes a great deal to its negative referent, originalism. At one point, Professor Thomas Grey tried to help out by introducing the term "noninterpretiv[ist]," (3) but that has ultimately turned out even less charitably: not only are we thought not to care much what the Constitution originally meant, but now it appears we are not concerned with interpreting the document at all! The issue of appellation is not problematic in name only. It carries over into our very essence, perhaps even contributing to a widespread defensiveness about what we think the Constitution is. The insecurity runs rampant through the pages of constitutional theory literature as, one by one, we have tried to construct an affirmative definition of constitutionalism that exists without use of the word "not."

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