THE REST IS SILENCE: I was going to use some space here to continue the rather vicious textualist-contextualist debate from earlier this afternoon, but, to be honest, it pretty much killed my interest in ever discussing that set of issues again. I'll afford myself one last exception: it seems pretty clear to me that you're either a textualist or a historian, and if political theory's about the latter, it probably has no place in political science.
UPDATE: In the spirit of conciliation and moderation toward my fellow political theorists, it's probably a good idea to clarify what I mean when I say "textualism," which I discuss in the comments here, and, I think, includes a heavy and significant place for context when it's appropriate for the theoretical issue you want to discuss.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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