Originalists

David Souter's Harvard Graduation Speech: One for the Books

David H. Souter, the perennially reticent, famously dorky former justice of the United States Supreme Court, gave his country a blessing of a speech last Thursday at Harvard University's commencement. In his typical polite, patient, plodding style, he offered to the (probably bored and underappreciative) crowd an extraordinary gift. He delivered to them a thoughtful but firm answer both to the lazy politicians who decry "judicial activism" and to "originalists," like Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who see the Constitution as a contract that must be interpreted only in light of ...

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