Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
Keywords
Scalia, religion, Catholicism, textualist, St. Thomas Aquinas
Abstract
It is because of Justice Scalia's suspicion of philosophy and of history that he becomes an outspoken textualist. But why should text carry greater authority? Why should the written word, rather than evolving tradition, be of higher authority, particularly to a Roman Catholic? To understand Antonin Scalia's affirmation of the centrality of text, we must, as many already have, seek to find out how the man viewed his religion and how he practiced it.
Repository Citation
Forte, David, "The Faith and Morals of Justice Antonin Scalia" (2019). Law Faculty Articles and Essays. 1104.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/fac_articles/1104
Volume
14
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Constitutional Law Commons, Courts Commons, Judges Commons, Supreme Court of the United States Commons
