February 04, 2026
Vast Early America Lecture with Jonathan Gienapp
“Originalism and the Authority of History in Constitutional Interpretation” Constitutional originalism stakes law to history. The theory’s core tenet—that the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted according to its original meaning—has us decide questions of modern constitutional law by consulting the distant constitutional past, above all the late eighteenth century when the Constitution originated. Now that a majority of justices… Read More
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