What is Good Faith Originalist Construction? [No. 86]

Is constitutional construction contrary to originalism? Professor Randy Barnett explains that construction can be done in a non-originalist manner, but that “good faith” construction is actually a necessary tool for originalist interpretation. Good faith construction is faithful not only to the original meaning of the text but also primarily to the text itself.

Professor Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.

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It must be the spirit and the letter interrelated together.