On Constitutional Interpretation

by Antonin Scalia

U.S. Justice Antonin Scalia's speech on Constitutional Interpretation covers the jurisprudential positions of constitutional interpretation: viz. the "originalist" and the "living" constitution. Also mentioned is Scalia's historical look at how the living constitution approach seems to have taken off with the Warren Court, and Scalia (an originalist) has dire warnings for civil liberties under the living consitution approach.

Genres: Law

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First published January 1, 2005

About the author

American jurist Antonin Scalia served from 1986 as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of United States.

Antonin Gregory Scalia previously served in the Administrations of Richard Milhous Nixon and Gerald Rudolph Ford, taught law at the universities of Virginia and Chicago, and served on the circuit for District of Columbia. Ronald Wilson Reagan, president, appointed him in 1986. People considered him a core member of the conservative wing; he vigorously advances textualism in statute and originalism in constitutional interpretation.

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