Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1993

Publication Title

The Heritage Lectures

Keywords

Supreme Court, conservatism, originalism, Rhenquist, constitution

Abstract

Now that the Supreme Court has been overwhelmingly staffed by appointees of Republican Presidents, we can ask: To what extent have they been faithful to the original version of the Constitution as articulated during its early years? How have they revivified the structural protections? How have they communicated an ethical sense of their own role in the structure? The answer, unfortunately, is that the record remains disappointing.

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