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constructionist

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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.
See also: Law


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Sadly, it is difficult for me to be optimistic about the prospect of the electorate choosing a president who will adhere to a strict constructionist view of our Constitution in the fashion of Coolidge.
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In the information-seeking field, the social constructionist approach came to the fore in the late 1990s as discussions of the limitations of the cognitive and "information transfer" approaches to research, dominant for so long, began to appear in the literature.
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