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The (Un)Written Constitution

December 3, 2021
George Thomas

“The use of words is to express ideas . . . But no language is so copious as to supply words and phrases for every complex idea, or so correct as not to include many equivocally denoting different ideas.”  – James Madison, Federalist 37 Conservative originalists like the late Justice Antonin Scalia relish pointing to […]

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