One can think of this as an example of 'problems in the philosophy of the social science', perhaps a dead subspecialty, really.
"...That process by which old principles and old phrases are charged with a new content, is from the lawyer's point of view an evolution of the true intent and meaning of the old law; from the historian's point of view it is almost of necessity a process of perversion and misunderstanding...." Maitland
I think of the founding fathers, certainly of the lawyers among them...did we even have any historians here, back then?
"...That process by which old principles and old phrases are charged with a new content, is from the lawyer's point of view an evolution of the true intent and meaning of the old law; from the historian's point of view it is almost of necessity a process of perversion and misunderstanding...." Maitland
I think of the founding fathers, certainly of the lawyers among them...did we even have any historians here, back then?
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