Jurists and scholars that believe changes in circumstances are irrelevant, and that the constitution is limited in scope to what the framers envisioned, support a doctrine referred to asâ

Jurists and scholars that believe changes in circumstances are irrelevant, and that the constitution is limited in scope to what the framers envisioned, support a doctrine referred to as originalism.

Originalism is an umbrella term for interpretative methods. This method holds to the "fixation thesis", the idea that an utterance's semantic content is determined at the time it is expressed.