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The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
Born: Mar 11, 1936

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