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

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates