Jonathan Gienapp

Jan 16, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Jonathan Gienapp |Aaron Coleman |David Schaefer |Emina Melonic

Jonathan Gienapp’s Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique does not come to praise originalism but to bury it. Far from a polemic or a screed, however, Gienapp has produced a profoundly considerate, sustained, and critical attack upon the methodology of public meaning originalism. The result is arguably the most important book written against originalist methodology. Originalists in the academy have little choice but to pay attention to it and respond to its charges.