Product Description: 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 from some of the greatest and most prominent legal experts of the last twenty-five years.
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Rating: - Reading into the rock
In spite of the outwardly partial banner on the book cover - "25th Anniversary of the Federalist Society" and with its president, Steven Calabresi editing it, as well as having a foreward by the current ... Read More
Rating: - A tremendously valuable book
I found this to be a very valuable book to read. Anyone who dismisses the book because it is published by Regnery or is a product of the Federalist Society is being foolish and cheating himself of a valuable ... Read More
Rating: - A Terrific Book about the Debate over Originalism
Steven Calabresi and The Federalist Society have done us a service by publishing this volume of speeches. Part I has major speeches by Attorney General Meese, Justice Brennan, President Reagan, and Judge Bork, ... Read More
- Reading into the rock
- A tremendously valuable book