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Interpreting the Constitution

Atlas Summit 2015 -- How does one determine the meaning of a 200+ year-old document? Does it mean what it was understood to mean in the 18th century? Or what it is understood to mean today? Or what the morally best reading would be? Or does it mean what certain authoritative interpreters say that it means? How does the Objectivist epistemology help answer these questions? This video shows how legal interpretation, especially of documents that were the product of a group effort rather than of a single person, depends on two related subjects: a theory of concepts and a theory of language. Boston University law professor Gary Lawson proposes answers that are somewhat different from those provided by Tara Smith, a noted Objectivist philosopher, and he will explain why and how they reach their various conclusions.