I think originalism is dumb because the last thing I do when I'm looking to solve a complex, real world problem is think "what would a bunch of radical whigs from the 1700s do?"
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I'm more interested in how pre-modern and early modern societies managed not to collapse into nonsensical liberalism without fetishizing constitutionalism. Seems obvious that broad structural incentives towards a conservative structure are more important than any written barriers
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I might agree with all that, but it's really a critique of substantive conservative thought, not originalism.
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