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Jonathan Gienapp

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Knowing How vs. Knowing That: Navigating the Past

How should we interpret the United States Constitution?

by Jonathan Gienapp via Process: A Blog for American History on April 4, 2017
Constitutional Originalism and History

Does the most historically minded school of constitutional law push history aside?

by Jonathan Gienapp via Process: A Blog for American History on March 20, 2017

The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era

Jonathan Gienapp

Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique

Jonathan Gienapp

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Collage of the American flag and the preamble to the Constitution.

The Historical Challenge to Originalism

Jonathan Gienapp's attack on originalism deserves a serious response.

by John O. McGinnis, Aaron N. Coleman, Mike Rappaport via Law & Liberty on January 16, 2025

Illustration of the Constitution, with the hand of a Founder writing with a feather, and the other side a 21st century hand writing with a pen.

The Supreme Court’s Originalists Are Fundamentally Wrong About History

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

by Andrew Lanham via The New Republic on October 7, 2024

U.S. Constitution

This Book Could Change the Way Conservatives Read the Constitution

“Against Constitutional Originalism” by historian Jonathan Gienapp could fundamentally reorient how we understand America’s founding.

by Cass R. Sunstein via Washington Post on September 25, 2024

How Did the Constitution Become America’s Authoritative Text?

A new history of the early republic explores the origins of originalism.

by Karen J. Greenberg via The Nation on February 7, 2019

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