KnowraTextualismLinked fromLinked fromThe 15 pages that link to Textualism, each with the reason it gives.All 15Related 6Narrower topic 1Compared with 8Reader-response criticismCompared with: Reader-response criticism gives greater weight to readers’ activity in producing meaning.Reception theoryCompared with: Its focus on textual evidence contrasts with reception theory’s emphasis on audiences and history.OriginalismRelated: Both prioritize public meaning, but textualism is a broader method not limited to constitutions or historical meaning.Constitutional interpretationRelated: It treats constitutional wording as the central constraint on interpretation.Ruth Bader GinsburgCompared with: Her opinions often combined text with precedent and practical consequences rather than treating text as the sole guide.Statutory interpretationCompared with: It makes the enacted words the central constraint on interpretation.Legal interpretationRelated: It treats enacted words, rather than inferred legislative intentions, as the main constraint on meaning.Intentional fallacyRelated: It exemplifies the principle’s preference for evidence available in the work.Antonin ScaliaNarrower topic: Scalia made textualism a prominent method for interpreting statutes.Strict constructionismRelated: Both approaches prioritize legal language, though textualism need not read that language narrowly.Hugo BlackRelated: Black insisted that constitutional meaning begin with the Constitution’s actual language.Quentin SkinnerCompared with: Skinner rejects readings that detach a text from the conventions and debates of its time.Spirit of the lawCompared with: It cautions against replacing a law’s words with an inferred purpose.YangmingismCompared with: Wang warned that textual study without moral practice could remain empty.Learned HandCompared with: Hand’s contextual approach to statutes differs from modern textualism’s stronger emphasis on ordinary textual meaning.