Nice column today, Jonah. Originalism tends to be everyone’s default method of constitutional interpretation. The liberals on the Court use it too. If the text of the Constitution as originally understood supports your position, why bother coming up with an elaborate political theory to justify the same result? The fact that everyone resorts to it when it doesn’t inconvenience them strikes me as a clue to originalism’s power.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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