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When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast // Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west
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Curtain Call (opens the original)
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When writing daily posts, ‘tis traditional to “do a sillymeta one” on the last day. Reflect on the project, talk about writing, that sort of thing. Any more would be hubris, any less, false humility. I dare say it’s too late for hubris, and humility has never been one of my faults!How Write?It is traditional, in the meta post, to reflect on the experience of writing. Challenges, writing process, that sort of thing. My primary reflection is that it was extremely easy. This politely requests an ex
Hyper-Originalism (opens the original)
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Normal textualism holds that you should interpret the constitution in light of the text of the constitution. Not what we would like the text to say, not what the founders would like the text to say, but what the text actually says.This, of course, has at least two problems, at least one philosophical and at least one practical. The philosophical problem is the problem of meaning. What do sentences mean? Nobody knows the answer to this. People sometimes tell me words are machines that license cer
What Even Is Precision Anyways? (opens the original)
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Say that you’re you and you make a deal with a genie that he’ll give you a sack of grain in exchange for all the iron you own, so he gives you a sack of grains of sand and takes all the iron out of your body which like kills you or makes you pass out when you stand up too fast or something.And also say you’re in a time loop and you feel sufficiently humiliated that you decide to stand up so fast it kills you (due your lack of iron) so you can try this again.So this time you might think to ask fo
Extremely Simple Textualist Analysis V: Holy Water (opens the original)
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In spits 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, there exist rules for creating holy water in the item description for Holy Water (flask). They read as follows:A cleric or paladin may create holy water by performing a special ritual. The ritual takes 1 hour to perform, uses 25 gp worth of powdered silver, and requires the caster to expend a 1st-level spell slot.Now, as textualists we of course do not care about what it
Capitalization (opens the original)
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The third amendment reads as if it is supposed to protect your right to not quarter soldiers. If there were an all consuming and highly effective pressure campaign directed at all landlords to put a clause which required tenants to quarter soldiers upon request in all lease agreements they offered, this would functionally undermine the third amendment in many respects. Sure, yes, this would be market forces operating market-force wise rather than the state operating state-wise and it would still
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