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Why originalism?

December 26, 2013 Eric Posner

ngram originalism cropped

The blue line shows how often “originalism” appears in books from 1900 to 2010, and the red line shows how often “evolving constitution” appears. The sharp increase in references to “originalism” occurs after 1980. Courtesy Google ngram.

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