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Jonathan Gienapp is a historian of the early American republic who holds appointments at Stanford University as an associate professor of history and of law. His scholarship centers on the constitutional, political, and intellectual history of the founding era and its bearing on modern debates over originalism. His first book, The Second Creation, won the American Political Science Association's award for the best book in American political thought.
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2024
Gienapp mounts a historical critique of originalism, arguing that founding-era Americans understood their Constitution in ways modern originalists do not — as unwritten as much as written, entangled with natural rights and general law — and that recovering that world unsettles originalism's claims.
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2018
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