Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday doesn’t merely mark the death of one of the greatest justices ever to occupy a spot on the Supreme Court – a tremendous philosopher of the law, a transformative figure in the direction of jurisprudence.
It could easily mark the death of the Constitution itself.
Scalia’s judicial philosophy, originalism, restored the idea that the Constitution represented and meant something real and lasting and meaningful, not merely a vessel for leftists to pour their own personal politics into.
Here’s Scalia’s explanation of his philosophy:
The theory of originalism treats a constitution like a statute, and gives it the meaning that its words were understood to bear at the time they were promulgated.
You will sometimes hear it described as the theory of original intent.
You will never hear me refer to original intent, because as I say I am first of all a textualist, and secondly an originalist. If you are a textualist, you don't care about the intent, and I don't care if the framers of the Constitution had some secret meaning in mind when they adopted its words.
I take the words as they were promulgated to the people of the United States, and what is the fairly understood meaning of those words.
In other words, the Constitution means what it meant when it was written, not some secret message in the heads of the Founders or worse, some magical poetry to be unlocked by Justice Anthony Kennedy.
This should be self-evident to anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty.
But the left has no intellectual honesty.
And that’s why the Constitution itself may have died with Scalia.
Here are just a few of the issues on which Scalia was the crucial fifth vote, and which will now flip if Obama is able to ram one of his nominees through the Senate..."
Read on and demand the Senate republicans stand tall.... for once!
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