{"id":7120,"date":"2020-10-25T19:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T21:42:58","slug":"on-originalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7120","title":{"rendered":"On Originalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"837me\" data-offset-key=\"cu8sh-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cu8sh-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cu8sh-0-0\">Originalism can roll back a frightening amount of legislation &#8212; New Deal, civil rights, food safety, etc. There&#8217;s even a school of thought that says the 14th amendment doesn&#8217;t mean stuff like the bill of rights doesn&#8217;t limit state government. Just Congress. Which would mean a *state* is free to enact limits that abrogate our federally ensured rights. The illogic of the argument is, I assume, why originalists inconsistently apply their beliefs rulings. Think of the 11th Amendment interpretation that &#8220;by Citizens of another State&#8221; includes &#8216;citizens of *that* state&#8217;, for instance. Or the purported Second Amendment right to weaponry that hadn&#8217;t been imagined in the late 1700&#8217;s. Originalists make decisions contrary to the founders&#8217; understanding of what they wrote.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"837me\" data-offset-key=\"4rq69-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4rq69-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4rq69-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"837me\" data-offset-key=\"7lntf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7lntf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7lntf-0-0\">And originalism seems to invalidate itself &#8212; was the understanding at the time the Constitution was adopted that most legislation requires a Constitutional amendment? <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originalism can roll back a frightening amount of legislation &#8212; New Deal, civil rights, food safety, etc. There&#8217;s even a school of thought that says the 14th amendment doesn&#8217;t mean stuff like the bill of rights doesn&#8217;t limit state government. Just Congress. Which would mean a *state* is free to enact limits that abrogate our &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[103,1162,609],"class_list":["post-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-constitution","tag-originalism","tag-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7126,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions\/7126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}