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Why originalism is a flawed incoherent and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretation

Originalism the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a wellaccepted mode of constitutional interpretation Three of the Supreme Courts nine justices explicitly embrace the originalist approach as do increasing numbers of judges in the lower courts

Noted legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky gives a comprehensive analysis of the problems that make originalism unworkable as a method of constitutional interpretation He argues that the framers themselves never intended constitutional interpretation to be inflexible and shows how it is often impossible to know what the original intent of any particular provision was Perhaps worst of all though its supporters tout it as a politically neutral and objective method originalist interpretation tends to disappear when its results fail to conform to modern conservative ideology