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Noun Concept
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originalism  Bad originalism  Constitutional originalism  Declarationism  Living Originalism
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The belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it WordNet 3.0
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The belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Originalism is a constitutional interpretation that asserts that all statements in a constitution should be interpreted based on the original understanding and only changed through amendment. Wikipedia
Concept regarding the interpretation of the Constitution that asserts that all statements in the constitution must be interpreted based on the original understanding of the authors or the people at the time it was ratified Wikidata
The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors. Wiktionary