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melm00se

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5. This article might be of interest to some
Wed Feb 22, 2023, 03:58 PM
Feb 2023
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3523&context=faculty_scholarship

"An historical approach to constitutional interpretation draws upon original intentions or
understandings of the meaning or application of a constitutional provision. Comparing
the ways in which courts in different jurisdictions use history is a complex exercise. In
recent years, academic and judicial discussion of “originalism” has obscured both the
global prevalence of resorting to historical materials as an interpretive resource and the
impressive diversity of approaches courts may take to deploying those materials."

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