Construction and constraint: Discussion of living originalism

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-34

  Solum, Lawrence B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 85071131245     PISSN: 22197117     EISSN: 22197125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jrls/jlt005     Document Type: Note

References (28)

1. JACK BALKIN, LIVING ORIGINALISM (2011).
2. Paul Brest, The Misconceived Quest for the Original Understanding, 60 B.U.L. REV. 204, 234 (1980).
3. Antonin Scalia, Address Before the Attorney General's Conference on Economic Liberties in Washington, D.C. (14 June 1986), in ORIGINAL MEANING JURISPRUDENCE: A SOURCEBOOK 101 at 106 (US Department of Justice ed., 1987).
4. See Gary Lawson, Proving the Law, 86 NW. U. L. REV. 859 at 875 (1992).
5. See Steven G. Calabresi & Saikrishna B. Prakash, The President's Power to Execute the Laws, 104 YALE L. J. 541 at 553 (1994).
6. See RANDY E. BARNETT, RESTORING THE LOST CONSTITUTION (2004).
7. See KEITH E. WHITTINGTON, CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION (1999).
8. KEITH E. WHITTINGTON, CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION (1999).
9. For a less compressed version of the story, see Lawrence B. Solum, What Is Originalism? The Evolution of Contemporary Originalist Theory, in THE CHALLENGE OF ORIGINALISM: THEORIES OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION 12, 33 (Grant Huscroft & Bradley W. Miller eds., 2011) [hereinafter, Solum, What is Originalism?].
10. Martin H. Redish & Matthew B. Arnould, Judicial Review, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Democratic Dilemma: Proposing a "Controlled Activism" Alternative, 64 FLA. L. REV. 1485, 1509 (2012). Redish and Arnould do not provide a precise understanding of their notion of idea of construction, but they are not using the term in the same way that it is articulated by contemporary originalist theory.
11. See Lawrence B. Solum, The Interpretation-Construction Distinction, 27 CONST. COMMENT. 95 (2010).
12. John McGinnis & Michael Rappaport, Original Methods Originalism: A New Theory of Interpretation and the Case Against Construction, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 751 (2009) [hereinafter Original Methods Originalism].
13. For a contrary, clever, and utterly implausible argument to the contrary, see Mark S. Stein, The Domestic Violence Clause in "New Originalist" Theory, 37 HASTINGS CONST. L. Q. 129, 133-35 (2009).
14. SOL STEINMETZ, SEMANTIC ANTICS: HOW AND WHY WORDS CHANGE MEANING (2008).
15. Certification of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Relating to Compensation of Members of Congress, 57 Fed. Reg. 21, 187-88 (19 May 1992).
16. JACK M. BALKIN, CONSTITUTIONAL REDEMPTION: POLITICAL FAITH IN AN UNJUST WORLD 228 (2011) [hereinafter Constitutional Redemption].
17. Lawrence B. Solum, The Interpretation-Construction Distinction, 27 CONST. COMMENT. 95 (2010).
18. FRANCIS LIEBER, LEGAL AND POLITICAL HERMENEUTICS (Roy M. Mersky & J. Myron Jacobstein eds., Wm. S. Hein & Co. 1970) (1839).
19. For the Google Books version, see http://books.google.com/books?id=_wwAAAAAYAAJ&dq=lieber+interpretation+construction&source=gbs_navlinks_s.
20. Ryan C. Williams, The Ninth Amendment as a Rule of Construction, 111 COLUM. L. REV. 498, 544 (2011).
21. See Jack M. Balkin, Abortion and Original Meaning, 24 CONST. COMMENT. 291, 293 (2007) [hereinafter Abortion and Original Meaning].
22. Mark D. Greenberg & Harry Litman, The Meaning of Original Meaning, 86 GEO. L. J. 569 (1998).
23. Jack M. Balkin, Original Meaning and Constitutional Redemption, 24 CONST. COMMENT. 427, 446 (2007).
24. Their view is briefly stated in John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, Original Interpretive Principles as the Core of Originalism, 24 CONST. COMMENT. 371 (2007) [hereinafter Original Interpretive Principles] and elaborated in Original Methods Originalism, supra note 11.
25. JAMES B. THAYER, THE ORIGIN and SCOPE OF THE AMERICAN DOCTRINE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (1893).
26. Jack Balkin, Nine Perspectives on Living Originalism, 2012 U. ILL. L. REV. 815, 817.
27. See Id at 868; Balkin, supra note 1 at 341 n. 2 (attributing the tools to Bobbitt); see also PHILIP BOBBITT, CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION (1993).
28. PHILIP BOBBITT, CONSTITUTIONAL FATE: THEORY OF THE CONSTITUTION (1982).