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Originalist meaning
One who has, or tends to have, original ideas. | One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way. | One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
Example sentences (5)
If “the focus of any proper originalist inquiry is the document itself,” then the court’s ruling was hardly originalist.
Most frustrating of all, few law schools are training graduates with the tools needed to deal with the originalist industrial complex.
Obviously, it has been noted especially while Scalia was alive that he was not an originalist (how dumb is that?) but he was bound by his religious beliefs!
In other words, the nominee is an originalist.
Ratification debates The debate surrounding the Constitution's ratification is of practical importance, particularly to adherents of originalist and strict constructionist legal theories.