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An Originalism for Foreign Affairs

dc.contributor.authorWuerth, Ingrid Brunk
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-13T22:45:39Z
dc.date.available2013-12-13T22:45:39Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citation53 St. Louis U. L.J. 5 (2008)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/5810
dc.description.abstractLegal scholarship on foreign affairs frequently focuses on the Constitution's text and original meaning, but generally does not fully engage debates about originalism as a method of modern constitutional interpretation. For its part, much of the scholarship defending originalism as a methodology has said little explicitly about foreign affairs. This short symposium contribution describes three contemporary normative arguments in favor of originalism - those advanced by Randy Barnett, Keith Whittington, and John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport - and then considers their application to foreign affairs. It concludes that these arguments are at best underdeveloped and at worst weak when it comes to many of constitutional issues that arise in the foreign affairs area. Originalists could clarify and strengthen their normative arguments if they focused greater attention on foreign affairs, particularly non-judicial constitutional interpretation, the relationship between executive and congressional power, and consequentialist problems that arise in this context. For foreign relations scholars, particularly those focused on history, this contribution is meant to encourage greater engagement with the methodology of contemporary constitutional interpretation.en_US
dc.format.extent1 document (27 pages)en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSaint Louis University Law Journalen_US
dc.subject.lcshUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Law and legislationen_US
dc.subject.lcshConstitutional law -- United States -- Philosophyen_US
dc.titleAn Originalism for Foreign Affairsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.ssrn-urihttp://ssrn.com/abstract=1134887


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