This study is devoted to an issue that is catching the attention of the current American constitutional debate and concerns the originalism of Ronald Dworkin. A fundamental feature of this debate is the ongoing dispute over what the correct interpretation of the US Constitution is. “Originalism”, which has hitherto been at the forefront of constitutional interpretative methods due to its numerous elaborations, has acquired such many meanings, concerning both the meaning of originalism and original meaning, that it is considered to have deprived itself of the possibility of being a unified theory. Seeking positive solutions to the problem, some American constitutionalists and legal theorists put forward the bold thesis that Dworkin, despite ...