Why conservatives shouldn't be originalists

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 969-976

  Strauss, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949089335     PISSN: 01934872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. See, e.g., Thomas W. Merrill, Originalism, Stare Decisis, and the Promotion of Judicial Restraint, 22 CONST. COMMENT. 271, 277-82 (2005) (discussing reasons why "a strong theory of precedent" leads to judicial restraint).
2. 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
3. See Michael W. McConnell, Qriginalism and the Desegregation Decisions, 81 VA. L. REV. 947 (1995).
4. Miscellaneous Orders, 345 U.S. 972, 972 (1953).
5. Brown, 347 U.S. at 489-90.
6. See David A. Strauss, Originalism, Precedent, and Candor, 22 CONST. COMMENT. 299, 304-06 (2005).
7. For a discussion, see David A. Strauss, Common Law, Common Ground, and Jefferson's Principle, 112 YALE L.J. 1717 (2003).
8. See Antonin Scalia, Onginalism: The Lesser Evil, 57 U. CIN. L. REV. 849 (1989).
9. See Akhil Reed Amar, The Supreme Court, 1999 Term - Foreword: The Document and the Doctrine, 114 HARV. L. REV. 26 (2000); Steven G. Calabresi, The Tradition of the Written Constitution: Text, Precedent, and Burke, 57 ALA. L. REV. 635 (2006).
10. 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
11. See EDMUND BURKE, REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE (1793).
12. 410 U.S. 113(1973).
13. See David A. Strauss, Common Law Constitutional Interpretation, 63 U. CHI. L. REV. 877, 900-03 (1996).
14. See Bruce Ackerman, The Living Constitution, 120 HARV. L. REV. 1737, 1741-42 (2007) (describing the efforts of "movement-Republicans" to change the status quo by promoting originalist judges).