There Is Nothing Pragmatic About Originalism

Scholarship

CO-AUTHORS David McGowan

PUBLISHER

Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy

DATE

2007

David S. Law

David S. Law & David McGowan, There Is Nothing Pragmatic About Originalism, 102 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 86-101 (2007).

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