textualism

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9-3-14
  

  Will Textualism kill Obamacare?

  by Jeffrey Toobin

  This approach, which was pioneered and advocated by, most prominently, Justice Antonin Scalia, holds that courts should interpret laws based solely on their own terms, and not on the basis of the intent of the legislators who create the statute.

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• Actually, Scalia's Legal Logic Permits Gun Control

  by Alan Singer

  "The key issues I want to address in this article are the constitutional principles Mr. LaPierre is so intent on defending."