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This book is a short introduction to and a defense of originalism and the Founding.
List of contents
Forward; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Preliminaries and Language: 1. The origins of originalism; 2. The meaning of meaning; Part II. The Original Constitution: 3. Constitutional legitimacy; 4. The founders on founding; 5. Interpreting the constitution; Part III. Objections and Recapitulation: 6. Lawyers as historians; 7. Brown v. board and originalism; 8. A coda on nonoriginalisms; Epilogue.
About the author
Ilan Wurman is an attorney in Washington, DC, and a nonresident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He was formerly deputy general counsel on Senator Rand Paul's US presidential campaign, associate counsel on Senator Tom Cotton's campaign for US Senate, and a law clerk to the honorable Jerry E. Smith of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review and the Texas Law Review, as well as in national journals, including National Affairs, The Weekly Standard, and City Journal. He graduated from Stanford Law School, and from Claremont McKenna College with degrees in Government and Physics.
Summary
This book is an introduction to and defense of originalism and the Founding intended for a more general audience. No similar book exists. It is aimed at law students, advanced college students, policymakers, and the politically interested reader seeking a general introduction to originalism and its implications for today.
