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...distinguished constitutional law professor who has argued three dozen cases before the Supreme Court, Tribe’s book proposes six different models that he said help to decipher the Constitution??s meaning. Last night, he discussed two of those models, what he called the geometric and geological models...
...geometric model, Tribe—who studied mathematics as an undergraduate—states that the Constitution??s amendments are specific points and that readers of the Constitution have to decipher the “underlying nature of human dignity that these points define...
...Scalia argued that justices should strive to base their decisions on the original meaning of the law. Within the Supreme Court, Scalia is one of the leading proponents of constitutional originalism. He opposes the concept of a “living Constitution,” that the Constitution??s meaning should be adapated to fit the needs of contemporary society. In the speech, Scalia invoked the era before Earl Warren became Chief Justice in the mid-20th century, when the standard view held that the Constitution should be “no different from any other legal text...
Although the death penalty, both philosophically and practically, runs afoul of our basic sense of decency, it sadly remains legal under the United States Constitution??or at least the Supreme Court’s reading of it. While the Court has not reconsidered the constitutionality of capital punishment recently, it did rule last week on issues of administration, when two death row inmates from Kentucky argued that a misadministration of the lethal injection could amount to cruel and unusual punishment and therefore violate the Eight Amendment. The Court, however, rejected such claims, arguing that, “Simply...
...British values.” The government introduced a package of measures designed to define what it means to be British last summer, including a definition of British citizenship, formulation of a “bill of rights and duties” for citizens—similar to a constitution??and even notions of a “British...