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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Sinai and Philadelphia: Two Dead-Hand Problems, and a Common Solution

With Passover coming soon, Tablet Magazine has published a little essay I've written called Sinai and Philadelphia.  The essay offers a perspective on something shared between the ritual of the Passover Seder and the practice (if not the normal official theory) of originalist interpretation in American constitutional law.  You can find the essay here.