Genuine turning point
Washington Times
by Bruce Fein
11/08/05
Judge Samuel A. Alito's confirmation as an associate justice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor would mark a genuine turning point in U.S. Supreme Court decisions. With Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Judge Alito would make the fourth of a band of philosophical brothers schooled to interpret the Constitution and statutes in accord with their original meaning, as the Founding Fathers intended. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and other architects of the Constitution described the judiciary as the least dangerous branch, partly because the court's interpretive power was meant to be circumscribed by the text and manifest purposes. As Lord Acton might have predicted, the court's absolute power to interpret corrupted its intended limits absolutely...
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051107-100012-1331r.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Bruce Fein
11/08/05
Judge Samuel A. Alito's confirmation as an associate justice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor would mark a genuine turning point in U.S. Supreme Court decisions. With Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Judge Alito would make the fourth of a band of philosophical brothers schooled to interpret the Constitution and statutes in accord with their original meaning, as the Founding Fathers intended. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and other architects of the Constitution described the judiciary as the least dangerous branch, partly because the court's interpretive power was meant to be circumscribed by the text and manifest purposes. As Lord Acton might have predicted, the court's absolute power to interpret corrupted its intended limits absolutely...
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051107-100012-1331r.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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