CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION methodologies include:

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B. ORIGINALISM (original intent / public meaning); TEXTUALISM (text focus); STRUCTURALISM (overall structure); PURPOSIVISM (purpose-focused); LIVING CONSTITUTIONALISM (evolving meaning); MORAL READING (best reading consistent with values)

1. CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION involves multiple methodologies:
2. (i) ORIGINALISM (Antonin Scalia, Robert Bork) — meaning fixed at adoption; (a) original INTENT of framers; (b) original PUBLIC MEANING (semantic);
3. (ii) TEXTUALISM — focus on text itself; less expansive than purposivism;
4. (iii) STRUCTURALISM (Charles Black) — interpretation from overall constitutional structure;
5. (iv) PURPOSIVISM — interpretation by purpose/goal of provision;
6. (v) LIVING CONSTITUTIONALISM — meaning evolves with social change (David Strauss);
7. (vi) MORAL READING (Ronald Dworkin) — best reading consistent with moral values;
8. (vii) PRAGMATISM (Richard Posner) — pragmatic considerations of consequences;
9. (viii) DEMOCRATIC THEORY-based (John Hart Ely) — protecting democracy;
10. (ix) HISTORICAL — drawing on tradition and history;
11. (x) COMPARATIVE — drawing on other constitutional systems.
12. INDIAN CONSTITUTION: Supreme Court applies a mix — Kesavananda Bharati basic structure (purposive); Maneka Gandhi (purposive); Olga Tellis (purposive expansion); etc.
13. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Constitutional Interpretation Theories_

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only originalism (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories) (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories) (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories) (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories)

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only living constitutionalism (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories) (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories) (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories) (cf. Constitutional Interpretation Theories)