the audience and some of the law know, there was an interesting article published in 1987 by jefferson powell called rules. but heot an historian was very sensitive to the nature and i think by definition he was an old -- wealist identifying band of brothers who care about this. he wrote rules for originalism. not necessarily an historical exercise, but he wanted to warn other original lists of some of the factors they had to keep in mind. he came up with 14 roles. i have about 20 or so minutes left and i planned ahead. i wanted to model my talk on what he was trying to do. so i have seven roles. if i have time, i might want to about justiceords ginsburg as an example of historical originalism. we might not have enough time but if the dean gives me the hook before i get there, i will find some way, but so let me -- .o let -- so let me start let me just -- let me just say something about what i tried to do in my book original meaning. once i got to stanford in 1980 and try to decide what my next project would be and to my original intention was just to write a long essay on a treaty of the con