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Is Originalism Internal or External to the Constitution?
Professor Lawrence Solum argues that originalism has to be both internal and external to the Constitution, for different reasons. The Constitution is a written document, designed to be binding, so all constitutional questions must examine the original internal meaning of the text. Originalism also needs to operate externally as a political theory to explain why the Constitution deserves to be binding in the first place. https://youtube.com/watch?v=iFE5TDGJqpo