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How do you interpret a constitution?

May 10, 2013Tim Kowal 11 Comments

The biggest cause of confusion faced by Originalists—the folks who think the Constitution means what it originally did in the late 1700s—isn’t the one you’d probably guess at first.  You’d probably guess it has to do with how we can… Continue Reading →

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