Textualism feels compelling chiefly when construing revered texts. [causal]
One is more likely to be tempted by textualism, to the exclusion of all else, if the text one is construing is the awe-inspiring First Amendment, than if one had to make the theory work for, say, "Letters of Marque and Reprisal."
Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 550