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"textContent": "_Texas A &M Law Review_ 13:2 (2026) is a symposium issue on constitutional interpretation with many contributions of interest to legal historians:\n\nConstitutional Interpretation as Problem Solving: How the Modalities Work\nJack M. Balkin\n\nOriginalist Arguments in Free Speech History\nSamantha Barbas\n\nRace, Memory, and Authority in Constitutional Interpretation\nHenry L. Chambers, Jr.\n\nMemory Warriors, Pluralists, and Abnegators in Constitutional Interpretation: An Essay on Jack Balkin's Pluralist Originalism in Memory and Authority\nJed Handelsman Shugerman and Zachary Shugerman Handelsman\n\nBalkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, the Uses of History, and Interpretive Discretion in a Divided Country\nNeil S. Siegel\n\nMemory and Authority of Failed Constitutional Amendments\nJulie C. Suk\n\nHistorical Methods of Constitutional Interpretation and Political Gradations\nNelson Tebbe\n\nRoger Taney, Memory Entrepreneur\nAnne Twitty\n\nHermeneutics in History\nJohn Fabian Witt\n\nRemarks: Why Constitutional Argument Matters\nPhilip Bobbitt\n\n--Dan Ernst",
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