The Superior Virtues of Historical Originalism

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

3-30-2016

Abstract

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jack Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University, delivered the Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture, “The Superior Virtues of Historical Originalism” on March 30, 2016. Professor Rakove has authored over six books, including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Alfred Knopf, 1996), winning a Pulitzer prize in 1997, where he argues that originalism, the practice of interpreting the Constitution by a fixed set of the original framers’ intentions, should not be the only approach to settling judicial questions.

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