Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-353) and index.
Foreword / by Antonin Scalia -- Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III before the American Bar Association -- Speech by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., at Georgetown University -- Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the Federalist Society Lawyer's Division -- Speech by Judge Robert H. Bork at the University of San Diego Law School -- Speech by President Ronald Reagan at the swearing in of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia -- Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, at Tulane University, 1986 -- Panel on originalism and unenumerated constitutional rights / Suzanna Sherry [and others] -- Panel on originalism and pragmatism / Larry Kramer [and others] -- Panel on originalism and precedent / Steven G. Calabresi [and others] -- Debate on the original meaning of the commerce, spending, and necessary and proper clauses -- Debate on Radicals in robes -- Speech to the 2005 Federalist Society Lawyers Division by Edwin Meese, III.
"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.
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Constitutional law--United States. Originalism (Law)--United States. Rule of law--United States. Constitutional law Rule of law Constitutional law--United States. Rule of law--United States.