Original Public Meaning (OPM) provides the fundamental building block of originalism, and originalism is now a leading approach to constitutional and statutory interpretation—the latter through the theory …

“Original public meaning” has become increasingly important in constitutional discourse. This Article investigates the nature of original public meaning in three steps. First, each word in the phrase …

Article offers new responses to longstanding objections to popular-sovereignty-based originalist theories, such as the exclusion of women and enslaved Black people ratification process.

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The original Constitution was curiously unsystematic regarding citizenship. Its text assumed (without expressly declaring) that there was a concept of citizen-ship, both citizenship of the United States …

Originalism has been the predominant interpretive methodology for constitutional meaning in American history: it is the methodology that has been with us since the Constitution’s birth.

PMO defines the “original public meaning” of constitutional language as what a reasonable person, fluent in English and knowing the salient, publicly available facts about its drafting, would have taken …