Usually means: Interpreting Constitution as originally understood.
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  1. originalism: Merriam-Webster
  2. originalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. originalism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. Originalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. originalism: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ noun:  The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.

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