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Roe v. Wade is a typical originalist example because they came up with first and third trimester lines for regulating a medical procedure that the authors of the document they were interpreting did not know existed.

A much older example is the authority of the supreme court to interpret the constitution. It's actually a self-assigned power that built up over the first fifty or so years of the United States' history as they grew bolder in challenging the legality of laws. It is not conferred in the constitution.




Roe v. Wade is 50 years old. The interpretation thing is hundreds of years old. These aren't reinterpretations satisfying recent cultural trends.




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