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May 17, 2018|Jack Rakove, James Madison, Lawrence Solum, Mary Sarah Bilder, Notes on the Constitutional Convention, Originalism

A Pox on Both Your Houses, Part II: Anti-Originalist Historians

by Lynn Uzzell|15 Comments

James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (77.00.01) [Digital ID# us0077_01p1]
Historians' ready embrace of Madison’s Hand calls into question their purported qualifications for understanding constitutional history.

May 16, 2018|James Madison, Lawrence Solum, Mary Sarah Bilder, Notes on the Constitutional Convention, Originalism, progressive jurisprudence

A Pox on Both Your Houses, Part I: Anti-Historical Originalists

by Lynn Uzzell|18 Comments

Constitution of the United States of America. Signature page of four pages of the National Archives copy created in the Constitutional Convention in 1787. (Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com)
If they are to maintain credibility with those who are not already sold on their views, originalists need to respect the discipline of history.

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