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con·struc·tion·ist  (kn-strksh-nst)
n.
A person who construes a legal text or document in a specified way: a strict constructionist.

constructionist [kənˈstrʌkʃənɪst]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US a person who interprets constitutional law in a certain way, esp strictly

constructionist
a person who puts a particular interpretation on provisions of the U.S. Constitution, especially those provisions dealing with the rights of individuals and states.
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But against a backdrop of feminist assaults on free speech and calls for workplace regulation, social constructionism seemed to many merely another justification for government coercion, a denial of the very concept of personal agency.
35) In chapter 3, Morrow (2008) examines essentialism and social constructionism as the two dominant theoretical perspectives that have shaped sexual discourses in Western societies, including sociological discourses.
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