Thomas Jefferson vs. Antonin Scalia: an Immaculate Misconception

When a case comes to me, I don't do whatever I feel like doing. I have a standard. That standard is what would the people at the time the Constitution was enacted have said.

    --Antonin Scalia, Speech at the University of Fribourg, March 8, 2008

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.