Larry Alexander (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted How to Understand Legislatures: A Comment on Boudreau, Lupia, Mccubbins, and Rodriguez (San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-122, San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 4, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In this essay I comment on an article setting forth the outline of a methodology for intentionalist statutory interpretation. Although I agree that intentionalism is the proper way to interpret statutes, I raise a conceptual problem that the authors purport to handle but in fact elide.
This is a topic on which Alexander has thought long and deeply! Recommended.