Reading the Constitution.
Title: Reading the Constitution.
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 707 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Reading the Constitution.
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 707 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
In their essay, "How Not to Read the Constitution", Lawrence Tribe and Michael Dorf describe the ways the Constitution has been interpreted by different people. Tribe and Dorf make it clear that the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted based on what the framers original intent was is not the way to read the Constitution, it takes much more than that. Tribe and Dorf also explain that justices do not interpret the Constitution in
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what she thought the framers originally meant, but by what she thought would do some good in the future. She also made it clear in her writing that the decision by the majority was not made based on the justices personal beliefs. She shows this in the majority opinion she wrote, "...the stronger argument is for affirming Roe's central holding, with whatever degree of personal reluctance any of us may have, not for overruling it."