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Justice Alito’s Practical Guide to Originalism

Almost 40 years ago, when he was still a new member of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech, later published as an essay, on how judges should interpret the Constitution. In "Originalism: The Lesser Evil," Scalia argued t

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Almost 40 years ago, when he was still a new member of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech, later published as an essay, on how judges should interpret the Constitution. In "Originalism: The Lesser Evil," Scalia argued that judges should interpret the Constitution's words in accordance with how those words were interpreted by the generation that wrote and ratified them.

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