The Narthex
Textualism/Originalism for Europe
National moral sovereignty is endangered by 'rights' ungrounded in legal texts
By John M. Grondelski | December 1st 2025 1:29 PM“Textualism” and “originalism” emerged as approaches to interpreting the Constitution in order to reconnect American judicial decisions with the document they were supposedly applying. The “living Constitution,” so in vogue from roughly the 1950s through 2000 (though not really firmly buried until Anthony Kennedy finally left the Supreme Court), unfettered…
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Must I Pay?... All Talk... Deliberate 'Errors'... Vague Values... more
By John M. Grondelski | September 18th 2023 12:42 PMI’ve explained in the past that I keep a subscription to The New York Times primarily because it is a source par excellence for the insane musings of the Left. But even I could not believe the number of such inanities the Old Gray Lady managed to publish in just…
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