Why the "originalism" in Balkin's living originalism?

Boston University Law Review

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1213-1223

  Baxter, Hugh ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (13)

1. JACK M. BALKIN, LIVING ORIGINALISM (2011).
2. JACK M. BALKIN, CONSTITUTIONAL REDEMPTION (2011).
3. see Lawrence B. Solum, Semantic Originalism 67-89 (Illinois Pub. Law & Legal Theory Res. Paper Series, Paper No. 07-24, 2008), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=l120244. Solum credits Keith Whittington and Randy Barnett as predecessors.
4. See Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U. S. 1, 67 (1824).
5. 83 U. S. (16 Wall) 36 (1873).
6. 92 U. S. 542 (1875).
7. 381 U. S 479 (1965).
8. 539 U. S. 558 (2003);
9. See Larry Alexander, The Method of Text and ? - Jack Balkin's Original ism with No Regrets 7-14 (University of San Diego Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Research Paper No. 11-067, 2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract= 1924568.
10. See RONALD DWORKIN, FREEDOM'S LAW: THE MORAL READING OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION 1-38 (1996).
11. RONALD DWORKIN, LAW'S EMPIRE 411-12 (1986). Dworkin says explicitly that Hercules' "answers to the various questions he encounters" do not "define law as integrity as a general conception of law."
12. A possible exception here might be to aspects of "the national security state." See The Anti-Torture Memos: Balkinization Posts on Civil Liberties, the War on Terror and Presidential Power, BALKINIZATION, http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/09/anti-torturememos-balkinization-posts.html (last updated Dec. 22, 2006).
13. See HUGH BAXTER, HABERMAS: THE DISCOURSE THEORY OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY 140-45 (2011) (endorsing German philosopher Jtirgen Habermas's notion of a constitution as a project to be developed through legislative and not just judicial action, with strong roots in civil-social organizations and public-sphere advocacy).