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Which Original Meaning Of The Constitution Matters To Justice Thomas?, Gregory E. Maggs
Which Original Meaning Of The Constitution Matters To Justice Thomas?, Gregory E. Maggs
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This essay was published as part of a symposium hosted by the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty in March 2009. The journal citation is: Gregory E. Maggs, Which Original Meaning Matters to Justice Thomas?, 4 N.Y.U. J. L. & Liberty 494 (2009).
The essay addresses a basic question about Justice Clarence Thomas’s originalist jurisprudence. When Justice Thomas looks for the original meaning of the Constitution, does he seek (a) the meaning intended by the Framers at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (“original intent”), (b) the meaning as understood by the delegates to the thirteen state ratifying conventions …