30 September 2005

Interpretation

Here is a good article from Lawyers, Guns, and Money about trying to interpret the Constitution according to "original intent." I can think of several other documents to which this argument should be applied...

1 comment:

Scott Lemieux said...

A legal scholar named Sanford Levinson wrote a good book called "Constitutional Faith" which compares "Catholic" and "Protestant" ways of reading the Cosntitution...in a way, reading religious texts involves a lot of the same issues.