11/02/2026
Originalism begins with one controversial premise: the Constitution's meaning is frozen in time.
Constitutional law professor Luke Boso explains that originalism looks backward. Rather than asking how constitutional language should apply in the present, it looks to what a term meant when it was drafted, ratified, or shortly afterward.
Justice Antonin Scalia captured the idea with a provocative phrase: the Constitution is "dead." History and tradition become the guide for interpreting its terms.
But what happens when today's legal questions did not exist when those words were written?
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