Abstract
This study examines the arguments that members of the First Congress made with respect to original intent. It identifies and classifies these arguments in categories analogous to those that might be used in cataloguing arguments based on canons of statutory construction. Given the overlapping functions of constitutional argument for courts and legislatures, the analogy should be unsurprising
Recommended Citation
Louis J. Sirico Jr.,
Original Intent in the First Congress,
71 Mo. L. Rev.
(2006)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol71/iss3/3