Associations to the word «Originalism»

Wiktionary

ORIGINALISM, noun. The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.

Dictionary definition

ORIGINALISM, noun. The belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope