But in researching that history, originalists rely on an artificially bounded historical record that disadvantages the descendants of people who were disenfranchised or poorly enfranchised at the time the Constitution was written, people who could not participate in ratifying conventions or serve in Congress or state legislatures or cast a vote for any of the men who did hold those offices, people whose political views were neither sought nor recorded. Originalism follows rules of evidence that no historian could accept.
