Originalism would have made sense if we were talking about some internal document we found. That is not even in the same galaxy as a document intended for the outside like a constitution of a nation.
By the way, sometimes words are sent with attachments but received without those attachments even within one's own thinking. That why, because of the same reason above, the word "text" here may mislead without careful attention to its attachments. (Actually, for me, it brings to my mind the thought about how many bytes are needed to store something written, in a computer storage, not the value of what is written). The constitution is not some document we found in a desert and we do not know how and why it was made. So in the context of interpreting the constitution, one needs to be careful not to miss all the attachments that come with the word "text", like the attention, effort, and selection of special people that was put into making that text and also, as mentioned above, the intention of directing that text to the outside.
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