Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Strict Interpretation
This from the homepage of CULT OF SCALIA: It could have been written during the most recent term of the court, but it wasn't:
"[W]hen a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution; we are under a government of individual men, who for the time being have the power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of that it ought to mean. Dred Scott v.Sanford, 19 How. 393, 620 (1857) (Curtis, J., dissenting)."
"[W]hen a strict interpretation of the Constitution, according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws, is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution; we are under a government of individual men, who for the time being have the power to declare what the Constitution is, according to their own views of that it ought to mean. Dred Scott v.Sanford, 19 How. 393, 620 (1857) (Curtis, J., dissenting)."
// posted by Zerin Hood @ 3:48 PM 
