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Origional Intent of the Constitution

Date Submitted: 07/14/2002 07:23:46
Category: / Social Sciences / Politics
Length: 1 pages (406 words)
Views: 154430

I believe that the arguments set forth by Justice Antonin Scalia are not very persuasive, at all. Justice Scalia believes in adhering to the same "original intent" to which the framers wrote the Constitution. I do not believe that this can be achieved and should not be attempted; because the United States are incredibly different then they were 217 years ago. To take a quote from Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr., "It is arrogant to …

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…constitutionality. The only limitation on the judges might be an executive order. An Executive Order is a "Directive issued by a president or a governor that has the same for of a law."(Burns, 39)Therefore, if the President does not like a Supreme Court assessment, then could he not just provoke the right of Executive Order and overturn that ruling. Unless the Supreme Court deems that order unconstitutional, in which they can dispose of it.

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