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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by dragonwriter on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:53PM (#25249669)
So, you are saying that textualist originalism, like Scalias, is the honest way, whereas intentionalist originalism is dishonest?

(And, yeah, there's actually more than two ways to interpret the Constituion.)

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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by dahdum on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#25256623)
Not the OP, but of those two, I certainly agree textualism is more "honest". I don't see how you could ever divine a singular true intent behind a compromise of hundreds of divergent minds.
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Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:43PM (#25271569)
"Textualism" requires divining a single true meaning as interpreted by some not-well-specified group contemporary to the writing, instead of doing so for the at least somewhat-well-specified group of people adopting the measure required for "intentionalism".

(I think both forms of originalism are useful and important interpretive lenses, but I think taking either as universally decisive or even mistaking either for a decidable objective standard is deeply problematic.)

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