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smooth · 04-17-2007, 07:23 PM

OK, so now I'm getting a sense of when you went to law school.

hmm, but where would you place Bork then (if different)?
Or how would you rework the partial typology I posted of restraintive positions?
AKAIK, interprativist and textualist are not distinct...the former is an earlier designation?

Whether you or I like the phrase "strict constructionism" is neither here nor there. I've defined it and am not carrying any political baggage with it. I do not see anything in dksuddeth's position that allow anything other than a literal reading of the words written. He even explicitly differentiated himself from Scalia...

04-17-2007, 07:23 PM	#47 (permalink)
smooth Junkie Location: Right here	OK, so now I'm getting a sense of when you went to law school. hmm, but where would you place Bork then (if different)? Or how would you rework the partial typology I posted of restraintive positions? AKAIK, interprativist and textualist are not distinct...the former is an earlier designation? Whether you or I like the phrase "strict constructionism" is neither here nor there. I've defined it and am not carrying any political baggage with it. I do not see anything in dksuddeth's position that allow anything other than a literal reading of the words written. He even explicitly differentiated himself from Scalia... __________________ "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman Last edited by smooth; 04-17-2007 at 07:36 PM..