Justice Antonin Scalia: The US Constitution is 'Dead'
The Hoover Institution - Hoover Institution
The Constitution "is not living, but dead." With these words Associate Justice Scalia sums up how he believes we should think about the Constitution -- a way of thinking that underpins the theory of "originalism" which guides his approach to cases that come before the Supreme Court.In expounding on originalism, Scalia takes the Court to task on past decisions, including Roe v. Wade, and measures just how far the Court can and should go in reversing these mistakes - Hoover Institution
