USD law professor Michael Rappaport defends the normative basis of originalism on the Right Coast. In a nutshell, he argues that the supermajoritarian nature of both constitutional ratification and constitutional amendment provide a normative basis for following the original meaning of constitutional text. His post is based, in part, on this article he co-authored with John McGinnis in the Texas Law Review. This paper, in turn, seems to be but one part of this duo’s scholarship on the nature of constitutional supermajority rules (see, e.g. here and here).
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