06 December 2022

Where Did Originalism Come From?

The reality of the history of the originalist movement in legal history, and the myth about its origins are quite different.
Empirically, the paper shows that the realigning GOP’s originalism grew directly out of political resistance to Brown v. Board of Education by conservative governing elites, intellectuals, and activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

From here via Fully Myelinated

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