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1. There’s a quiet revolution underway in constitutional studies, and we’ve got two entries from it up this morning. Digital methods are transforming our understanding of the field:
2. How do we understand the original meaning of constitutional terms? @jdmortenson looked at more than a thousand contemporary texts, and produced a finding of tectonic importance about executive power: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
3. Digital methods are also changing how we understand contemporary debates. David Pozen and his colleagues used machine learning to show a recent, sharp divergence in constitutional rhetoric: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
4. Like most scholarly revolutions, this one will take some time to filter into the courts. But it will happen. And research like this—on executive power—will become the texts on which future decisions pivot: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
