Thoughts on McGinnis and Rappaport’s “Originalism and the Good Constitution”, Part 2
This post continues my thoughts on Originalism and the Good Constitution by John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport (part 1 is here). One of the most important parts of Originalism and the Good Constitution is methodological rather than normative. In Chapter 7, the authors argue that original meaning depends not just on the original meaning of the words themselves but on…