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- noun One who is not an
originalist (regarding the US Constitution).
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Examples
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That Scalia applies nonoriginalist standards from the Warren Court might shock readers who view him as the exemplar of judicial restraint.
Darren Hutchinson: Antonin Scalia, Gender, Race and Hypocrisy Darren Hutchinson 2011
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The paper concludes that because the meaning of the Privileges and Immunities Clause at the time of ratification with rife with ambiguity, a nonoriginalist approach is a better way to tackle the incorporation problem, even for a New Originalist determined to base constitutional adjudication on methods for ascertaining constitutional meaning that were accepted in the framing era.
Rosenthal on Original Public Meaning and the Problem of Incorporation Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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Originalists sometimes appeal to these background assumptions to render the meaning of more abstract words or phrases more determinate; nonoriginalist point to odious or outmoded assumptions as proof that original meaning is objectionable and should be rejected.
Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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This Article considers the import of originalism's practical success for nonoriginalist constitutional theories.
Greene on Selling Originalism Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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While this analysis should be of obvious interest to originalists, it should also be of interest to any nonoriginalist who believes that the original meaning of the text is at least one factor or "modality" of constitutional interpretation to be balanced against other considerations.
Archive 2008-12-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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While this analysis should be of obvious interest to originalists, it should also be of interest to any nonoriginalist who believes that the original meaning of the text is at least one factor or "modality" of constitutional interpretation to be balanced against other considerations.
Barnett on The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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This Article considers the import of originalism's practical success for nonoriginalist constitutional theories.
Archive 2008-10-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Originalists sometimes appeal to these background assumptions to render the meaning of more abstract words or phrases more determinate; nonoriginalist point to odious or outmoded assumptions as proof that original meaning is objectionable and should be rejected.
Barnett on The Misconceived Assumption About Constitutional Assumptions Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Here's the abstract: In this article we argue that originalism advances the welfare of the present day citizens of the United States, because it promotes constitutional interpretations that are likely to have better consequences today than those of nonoriginalist theories.
Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Ferguson with nonoriginalist living constitutionalism suggests that he understands very little about the history of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Balkinization 2005
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