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Article: Tribe and scalia on the constitution: A Third View.(US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and law professor Laurence Tribe)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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Most Americans understand that a vitally important aspect of the American constitutional system is the rule of law. However, few understand what the rule of law means as it applies to constitutional interpretation.
If you read the editorial pages of a newspaper such as the New York Times, you will find an occasional letter or op-ed piece by a lawyer or even a federal judge on one or another matter of constitutional law that reads somewhat like this: "The attempt to enact a constitutional amendment that would permit states to criminalize the burning of the United States flag is an attempt to limit the free speech rights that the First Amendment of the Constitution ...