There is a sharp separation between the scholarly literature of originalists and professional historians. Originalists cite one another, but regularly ignore recent work by historians. Historians are generally happy to return the favor. Engagement between the two communities is too often limited to methodological disputes and amicus briefs. As a result, historical inquiry offers less to constitutional law than it might, and constitutional lawyers offer less to history than they could. Some of this separation is due to unavoidable methodological tension, but those tensions have not always frustrated productive dialogue. Originalism, in fact, emerged as an important theory of constitutional interpretation because of developments in professional historiography. Post-Revisionist approaches to the historiography of Reconstruction inspired and legitimated the book that set originalism on its current trajectory: Raoul Berger's Government by Judiciary. The revolution in the historiography of the founding embodied in Gordon Wood's Creation of the American Republic offered originalists other opportunities. It was not methodological disagreements but technological, institutional, and disciplinary developments since the 1980s that separated history and originalism. Those trends have mostly accelerated in the twenty-first century, but the role historians played in creating originalism suggests opportunities for productive dialogue still exist and should be pursued.

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历史与原旨主义中的方法与对话

原创主义者的学术文献和专业历史学家的学术文献之间存在明显的区别。原创者互相引用，但经常忽略历史学家最近的工作。历史学家通常乐于回报。两个社区之间的接触往往仅限于方法论争议和法庭之友简报。结果，历史调查对宪法的贡献比它所能提供的要少，而宪法律师对历史的贡献也比他们所能提供的要少。这种分离部分是由于不可避免的方法论紧张，但这些紧张并不总是阻碍富有成效的对话。事实上，由于专业史学的发展，原旨主义成为宪法解释的重要理论。对重建史学的后修正主义方法启发并合法化了将原创主义置于其当前轨迹的书：Raoul Berger's Government by Judiciary。戈登伍德的《美利坚共和国的创造》所体现的建国史学革命为原创主义者提供了其他机会。自 1980 年代以来，区分历史和原创主义的不是方法论上的分歧，而是技术、制度和学科的发展。这些趋势在 21 世纪大多加速了，但历史学家在创造原创性方面所起的作用表明，进行富有成效的对话的机会仍然存在，应该加以利用。戈登伍德的《美利坚共和国的创造》所体现的建国史学革命为原创主义者提供了其他机会。自 1980 年代以来，区分历史和原创主义的不是方法论上的分歧，而是技术、制度和学科的发展。这些趋势在 21 世纪大多加速了，但历史学家在创造原创性方面所起的作用表明，进行富有成效的对话的机会仍然存在，应该加以利用。戈登伍德的《美利坚共和国的创造》所体现的建国史学革命为原创主义者提供了其他机会。自 1980 年代以来，区分历史和原创主义的不是方法论上的分歧，而是技术、制度和学科的发展。这些趋势在 21 世纪大多加速了，但历史学家在创造原创性方面所起的作用表明，进行富有成效的对话的机会仍然存在，应该加以利用。