Democrat or Republican, politicians in D.C. can't be trusted to follow the Constitution.

Phony Originalism

Posted on 12 August 2009

by Kevin R.C. Gutzman, Taki’s Magazine

Since the days of Ronald Reagan and Edmund Meese, the Republican Party’s position has been that judges should be bound by the people’s understanding of a particular constitutional provision at the time they ratified it. This notion goes under the name “originalism.â€