The New Deal era marked a significant change in Constitutional interpretation. Politicians, academics and judges decided that the original meaning of the Constitution stood in the way of modern politics. Professor Gary Lawson outlines the scholarship and ideas behind this movement, how it affected judicial decisions, and then how the pendulum slowly swung back toward originalist Constitutional interpretation.

Professor Gary Lawson is the Philip S. Beck Professor at Boston University School of Law.

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