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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. Inside you'll find: *A foreword by Justice Antonin Scalia and speeches by former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Justice William Brennan, Judge Robert H. Bork, and President Ronald Reagan *Transcripts from panel discussions and debates engaging some of the brightest legal minds of our time in frank, open discussions about the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States and its impact on the rule of law in our country *A debate on the original meaning of the Commerce, Spending, and Necessary and Proper Clauses *Concluding thoughts by Theodore Olson, forty-second solicitor general of the United States and a fellow at both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. ORIGINALISM: A QUARTER-CENTURY OF DEBATE is a lively and fascinating discussion of an issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in America, and one that continues to elicit strong reactions from both those who support and those who oppose the rule of law. Steven G. Calabresi, co-founder of the Federalist Society and professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, has compiled an impressive collection of speeches, panel discussions, and debates fromsome of the greatest and most prominent legal experts of the last twenty-five years.

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• Introduction(p. 1)
• Foreword(p. 43)
• Part I
• 1 Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the American Bar Association(p. 47)
• 2 Speech by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., at Georgetown University(p. 55)
• 3 Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the Federalist Society Lawyers Division(p. 71)
• 4 Speech by Judge Robert H. Bork at the University of San Diego Law School(p. 83)
• 5 Speech by President Ronald Reagan at the Swearing in of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia(p. 95)
• 6 Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, at Tulane University, 1986(p. 99)
• Part II
• 7 Panel on Originalism and Unenumerated Constitutional Rights(p. 113)
• 8 Panel on Originalism and Pragmatism(p. 151)
• 9 Panel on Originalism and Precedent(p. 199)
• 10 Debate on the Original Meaning of the Commerce, Spending, and Necessary and Proper Clauses(p. 253)
• 11 Debate on Radicals in Robes(p. 287)
• 12 Speech to the 2005 Federalist Society Lawyers Division(p. 317)
• Concluding Thoughts(p. 333)
• List of Contributors(p. 337)
• Acknowledgments(p. 339)
• Notes(p. 341)
• Index(p. 347)