-
understanding then as to what
those words mean?)." (emphasis in original)
Textualists argue courts should read the
words of a
statutory text as any ordinary...
- strict-construction
textualists, or
because they are not
textualists at all. But a
proper textualist,
which is to say my kind of
textualist,
would surely have...
- interpretations. He has
noted that only the last two
differentiate him from
textualists such as Scalia.
Breyer argues that
these sources are necessary, however...
-
discoverable in the
history of its
creation – a
reality that today's
supposedly '
textualist' or at
times 'originalist'
Court conveniently ignores." (p. 51.) Katz...
- ibn
Hanbal (780–855 CE), that is
characterized by its
adherence to a
textualist understanding of the
Quran and the sunnah, the
belief that the
Quran is...
-
consistent with its "ordinary meaning": "The law is
comprised of words—and
textualists emphasize that
words mean what they say, not what a
judge thinks that...
-
maintaining only limited,
enumerated powers. Some
legal scholars (including
textualists and originalists) have
effectively classified the
amendment as a tautology...
-
comprises the Ash'ari and
Maturidi schools of
kalam (theology) as well as the
textualist Athari school. ****s
regard the
first four
caliphs Abu Bakr (r. 632–634)...
-
Harvard Law
School honoring her then-colleague
Scalia that "we are all
textualists now." In 2017,
Harvard University established an
endowed professorship...
-
contrast to purposivists,
textualists focus on the
words of a statute,
emphasizing text over any
unstated purpose."
Textualists believe that everything...
