On April 5 at 6 p.m., NH Civics and New Hampshire Public Radio will continue a series of community conversations on citizenship today at Franklin Pierce University’s Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication.The programs are being held around New.
Constitutional Connections: The constitution and democracy in troubled times
Published: 2/7/2021 6:45:04 AM
Many judges, including a majority of the justices who presently serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, would agree with the following statement: Judges should interpret the Constitution according to its text, as that text was originally understood when it became law, even if that interpretation conflicts with one that might better serve the public interest.
They argue that this “textualist-originalist” approach is required to justify our practice of judicial review. Judicial review, commonly traced to the Supreme Court’s 1803 decision in
Marbury v. Madison, is our commitment to giving final say about what the Constitution means to the judicial branch.