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What is an originalist?

What is an originalist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who has, or tends to have, original ideas.
  2. One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
    1. (theology) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the Jewish and Christian scriptures intended them to be interpreted, and to interpret them in that way.
    2. (US) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the United States Constitution intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.
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I consider myself to be both an originalist and a textualist.
Having written a book on Antonin Scalia, Rossum here turns his attention to Thomas, the other unabashed originalist on the US Supreme Court.
An originalist Court could even overturn some of those victories as unanchored in the Constitution.
Why have conservative jurists become so willing to deviate from an originalist viewpoint on the Second Amendment?
Would the Court find a way of upholding a law that was so clearly at odds with anything resembling an originalist reading?
At first blush, Heller's originalist methodology appears to embrace a largely unqualified right of every person to possess and carry any firearm in common civilian use.

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