Botein, Dictionary of American Biography, supra note 6, at 490. Mag. of Hist. Mag. of Hist. This emphasis on tradition as the justification for even revolutionary retooling of institutional structures has a venerable hertiage in American legal and political thought. J. Legal Hist.
Originalism is, of course, conditioned in some sense by historicism.
If legal meaning is fixed by a particular moment in time, that moment becomes by definition worthy of historical investigation. Ames, Dean of Harvard Law School, also gave a speech at the opening of Lewis Hall, predicting the law professors' power would grow through the building of schools like Penn's, which would attract the most able lawyers to teaching. See 6 Record Book, supra note 14, at 6. Hedley Bull, et al. Ferguson, supra note 13, at 4.