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.