Textualism [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The hosts discuss Textualism, the legal theory that the dictionary is the real law, God made the dictionary, and what legislators intended is a secondary consideration at best.
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| 0:50.4 | You know, there's that classic phrase that we're all realists now. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, I think we're all textualists now. |
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| 1:15.0 | On this Premium episode of 5.4, Peter, Rianne, and Michael are talking about textualism, |
| 1:20.8 | the legal theory that prioritizes the literal text of laws over what might have been the |
| 1:25.1 | intended outcome of the legislation. |
| 1:27.5 | Proponents of textualism, like Justice Anthony Scalia, have argued that it prevents judges |
| 1:32.3 | personal opinions from coloring their decisions. |
| 1:35.0 | We're governed by the laws that Congress and Acts not by the unexpressed intent of whoever |
| 1:40.0 | wrote them. |
| 1:41.0 | And if they meant up when they said down, that's their problem, I frankly, if the legislative |
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