Word: textualist
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...help. He may also prove useful in mobilizing some otherwise despondent conservatives who care particularly about judicial appointments and the courts. "One of the most important things Bush will be remembered for is the fact that he put two justices on the Supreme Court who embrace a more textualist understanding of the constitution," says Leonard Leo, national co-chair of Catholic outreach for the RNC. "That accomplishment plays out here," he says...
...have the wisdom of Solomon--should apply general, unvarying rules to every case, Scalia says. And the Constitution, he maintains, consists of just such rules. Where others see highly abstract terms, intentionally written to evolve with the nation they're meant to govern, Scalia--who describes himself as a textualist and originalist--sees a text of fixed and narrow meaning: in the Bill of Rights, "liberty" cannot comprise the privacy and personal autonomy to choose to have an abortion or to engage in homosexual relations because it did not in 1791. The 14th Amendment's "equal protection" cannot overrule...
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