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textualist
[ teks-choo-uh-list ]
noun
- a person who adheres closely to a text, especially of the Scriptures.
- a person who is well versed in the text of the Scriptures.
- Law. a person who adheres to the doctrine that a legal document or statute should be interpreted by determining the relatively objective ordinary meaning of its words and phrases:
Justice Hugo Black took a literal reading of the Bill of Rights, leading to his reputation as a textualist.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of textualist1
Example Sentences
But if we go by a rigid textualist reading of the 22nd Amendment, it could happen.
"There's a growing number of originalists who are saying so out loud. It鈥檚 important to recognize how the Roberts court is not truly textualist or sincerely originalist. But it's abundantly clear it鈥檚 driven by conservatism, traditionalism and partisan ideology."
If you are a textualist when it comes to statutory interpretation, as all the court鈥檚 conservatives claim to be, that should be the end of the matter.
According to the textualist position associated with the late Justice Antonin Scalia, legal words mean what they say.
The problem for the conservative textualist justices is that they can鈥檛 admit they鈥檙e looking at purpose.
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