Originalism as a Model of Political Communication
Philosophical arguments of this sort tend to be the domain of political theorists rather than law professors, but Strang is no stranger to the field. He studied under Richard Parker at Harvard and wrote his LL.M. thesis on Originalism and the Aristotelian Tradition. Strang asserts that the Aristotelian philosophical tradition s account of our Constitution requires federal judges to utilize originalism. This is a novel argument; proponents of natural law a powerful force in Catholic theology, and in moral philosophy generally often advocate it as an alternative to originalism, which they sometimes deride as positivism. Strang turns the tables by arguing that originalism is not only compatible with natural law, it is compelled by it.