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- Textualism quotetext "Textualist judges have contended, with much practical impact, that courts should not treat committee reports or sponsors' statements as authoritative evidence of legislative intent. These judges base their resistance to that interpretive practice on two major premises: first, that a 535-member legislature has no "genuine" collective intent concerning the proper resolution of statutory ambiguity ; second, that giving weight to legislative history offends the constitutionally mandated process of bicameralism and presentment.".