Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A theory of legal interpretation emphasizing the importance of the everyday meanings of the words used in statutes.
- noun Strict adherence to a text, especially of the Scriptures.
- noun Textual criticism, especially of the Scriptures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Strict adherence to the text.
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- noun
strict adherence to sometext , especially to theBible - noun
textual criticism , especially that of the Bible
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Part III, Somin finds that textualism is here to stay, and will not “work itself pure” as Siegel has argued.
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In real judging, textualism is only used where the means serve the ends, until somebody nominates a Jeff Flake or Ron Paul to thebench.
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What every method allows, including textualism, is the use of sources outside the text in order to interpret it.
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I thought you meant that textualism is drained of all content in general.
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The other version, known as original meaning, or textualism, is the view that interpretation of a written constitution should be based on what it would commonly have been understood to mean by reasonable persons living at the time of its ratification.
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Professor Ilya Somin counters Professor Siegel’s argument that textualism is ultimately doomed to irrelevance because its “inexorable radicalization ... will cause it to lose the interpretation wars.”
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One thing worth considering, Ilya, in this discussion of the good and bad of textualism is the Supreme Court’s decision in Brand-X.
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His approach is "textualism" which posits that the "plain and ordinary meaning" of the Constitution's text should be the guiding principle of any interpretation.
Week's Funniest Joke: GOP Demands Obama Nominate Mainstream Candidate to Supreme Court 2010
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This method contrasts with other ways of evaluating activism such as textualism, originalism, and jurisprudential theory.
Green on An Intellectual History of Judicial Activism Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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But he is also a devotee of literalist "textualism" in interpreting laws.
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