A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism by Ilan Wurman

A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism

Ilan Wurman

168 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison is often quoted for the proposition that we should not be bound to the 'dead hand of the past', suggesting that the Constitution should instead be in...

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