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“There is nothing in the Constitution to tell you how to read the Constitution,” Tribe said, expounding on his well-known criticism of “strict constructionists,” or those who say the Constitution should be interpreted literally.
With two weeks until the presidential election and the composition of the Supreme Court potentially hanging in the balance, Harvard Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 spoke last night about the need to reevaluate how we interpret the Constitution.
He drew his arguments from his latest book, “The Invisible Constitution,” which calls for a deeper reading of the governing document and insists that we have to learn to interpret it from what is not explicitly stated within the text.
In the 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.?...
Riley: I didn't hear the first presidential debate--I was coming back from abroad--but I saw a picture of [Obama and McCain] afterward ... I thought, This is an interesting example of a case where you would sort of want to see both of those personalities or temperaments blended...