Antonin Scalia quote: The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. ...

The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it ...

~ Antonin Scalia ~

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