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单词 textualist
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Definition of textualist in English:

textualist

noun ˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪstˈteksCHo͞oələst
  • A person who adheres strictly to a text, especially that of the scriptures.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Second, those who consider themselves textualists or originalists are generally opposed to looking at the ‘legislative intent’ of a law.
    • Even thoroughgoing originalists and textualists generally believe that Constitutional terms should be read in ways that account of technological developments.
    • Friendly was more of a cautious purposivist than a textualist, and was willing to cite and rely on legislative history in some circumstances.
    • Given our institutions, the Constitution will mean what the Justices say it means, even if the Justices are all textualists.
    • According to originalists and textualists, the constitution protects us from judges and other officials by restricting them to politically uncontroversial, neutral decisions about historical intentions and semantic meanings.
    • I thought conservatives were supposed to be strict textualists!
    • That makes him a rather more complicated textualist than might originally be supposed.
    • I am doing that because I am more interested in exploring the general tension between the text and the interpretations endorsed by many self-described textualists than in the details of any one approach.
    • I consider myself to be both an originalist and a textualist.

Derivatives

  • textualism

  • noun ˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪz(ə)mˈtɛk(st)ʃ(u)əˌlɪzəm
    • But good textualism doesn't just look at the literal English meaning of an isolated phrase; it also looks to the legal meaning of the phrase, and to other provisions of the Constitution.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Originalist meaning textualism is not without its difficulties because the attempt to bind governments by written constitutions has inherent difficulties.
      • Although he competently summarizes this theory in his introduction, Ring does little to distinguish textualism from originalism in general or from originalist intentionalism in particular.
      • Just as important, the 68-year-old justice hews to a philosophical framework - known as textualism - that gives great weight to the written words of the Constitution and legislation.
      • There never was a golden age of First Amendment textualism or absolutism in American history, even if you limit the First Amendment to Congressional power.
 
 

Definition of textualist in US English:

textualist

nounˈteksCHo͞oələst
  • A person who adheres strictly to a text, especially that of religious scriptures.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Friendly was more of a cautious purposivist than a textualist, and was willing to cite and rely on legislative history in some circumstances.
    • Even thoroughgoing originalists and textualists generally believe that Constitutional terms should be read in ways that account of technological developments.
    • I am doing that because I am more interested in exploring the general tension between the text and the interpretations endorsed by many self-described textualists than in the details of any one approach.
    • Second, those who consider themselves textualists or originalists are generally opposed to looking at the ‘legislative intent’ of a law.
    • I consider myself to be both an originalist and a textualist.
    • I thought conservatives were supposed to be strict textualists!
    • That makes him a rather more complicated textualist than might originally be supposed.
    • Given our institutions, the Constitution will mean what the Justices say it means, even if the Justices are all textualists.
    • According to originalists and textualists, the constitution protects us from judges and other officials by restricting them to politically uncontroversial, neutral decisions about historical intentions and semantic meanings.
 
 
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