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Robert Bork

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Robert Bork was an American legal scholar and judge credited with proposing the first modern theory of originalism in 1971, arguing that a court should take from constitutional text rather specific values that the text or its history show the framers actually intended, rather than reading the document to reach a preferred result.

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Proposed the first modern theory of originalism in 1971. 1
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Credited with proposing the first modern theory in 1971.

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