![]() ![]() In fact, it was the Supreme Court itself that had awakened the idea in three areas of the law: (1) church-state relations, (2) the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (especially relating to criminal procedure), and (3) abortion. Meese’s call for originalism was not original with him. ![]() ![]() But is originalism-including its proponents, detractors, and influence-now part of law school teaching about the Constitution?ĭespite its notoriety, Mr. Since the attorney general's speech, the expanding and evolutionary literature on originalism has resulted in uncounted books and articles. It made Justice Antonin Scalia a household word. It affected the way many judicial opinions are written. It engendered new research into virtually every clause of the Constitution. It derailed the then standard “non-interpretive” methodology of parsing the Constitution-that is, the idea that Constitutional principles behind the text can be freely adapted to modern problems and sensibilities. It is now twenty-five years since former Attorney General Meese made his famous plea before the American Bar Association for a return to “a Jurisprudence of Original Intention.” That event, recently commemorated within the chambers of the United States Supreme Court, took what had been a growing dispute among academics and historians and thrust it into national prominence.Attorney General Meese’s call changed the way the Senate and the public looked at the Supreme Court. He has also been aided by an unusually talented and hardworking group of research assistants: Daniel Dew, Michael Muha, Rachel Kuhn, Mary Santez, and Zachary Trotter. The author wishes to acknowledge the extraordinary assistance afforded him by the Cleveland State University Library staff, including Amy Burchfield, access and faculty services librarian Beth Farrell, circulation supervisor and Andres Garcia, student assistant. Forte is professor of law at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115. ![]()
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