original meaning
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释义

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英英释义

Original meaning

• In the context of United States constitutional interpretation, original meaning is the dominant form of the legal theory of originalism today. It was made popular by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and contends that the terms of the United States Constitution should be interpreted as meaning what they meant when they were ratified, which is to say, it asks the question: "What would a reasonable person living at the time of ratification have understood these words to mean?

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双语例句

1. A literal translation is not always the closest to the original meaning.
   逐字翻译不一定最接近原义。
2. So many amendments were made to the law that its original meaning was completely changed.
   这项法律经过这么多次的修正，其原意已经完全变了。

权威例句

Original Meaning
The Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause
Delegation and Original Meaning
Odyssey's end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original homeric meaning.
Abortion and Original Meaning
Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
Odyssey鈥檚 end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original Homeric meaning
Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause, The
The Original Meaning of “Democracy”: Capacity to Do Things, not Majority Rule
"Nor Cruel and Unusual Punishments Inflicted:"The Original Meaning