The rule of law and our written Constitution
Subtitle: the quarter-century debate over originalism
By: edited by Steven G. Calabresi.
Contributors: Calabresi, Steven G.
Publisher: Regnery Pub. Inc.; Regnery Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781596980501
Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction; Rule of law -- United States
Description: "What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: On looking back / by Antonin Scalia; title: Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III to the American Bar Association, 1985; title: Speech by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. at Georgetown University, 1985; title: Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III before the Federalist Society Lawyer's Division, 1985; title: Speech by Judge Robert H. Bork at the University of San Diego Law School, 1985; title: Speech by President Ronald Reagan at the swearing in ceremony of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia, 1986; title: Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III at Tulane University, 1986; title: Panel on originalism and unenumerated constitutional rights / Suzanna Sherry ... [et al.]; title: Panel on originalism and precedent / Larry Kramer ... [et al.]; title: Panel on originalism and precedent / Steven G. Calabresi ... [et al.]; title: Debate on the original meaning of the commerce, spending, and necessary and proper clauses; title: Debate on radicals in robes; title: Speech to the 2005 Federalist Society Lawyers Division by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III.