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What is perhaps most interesting about the paper, however, is that its defense of originalism depends on an assumption that the constitution was enacted under a "supermajority process," and yet they acknowledge that a majority of those living in the United States women and African Americans were excluded from participation, thereby making supermajoritarianism impossible.
Archive 2008-03-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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