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In his highly tendentious article, "Radicals in Conservative Garb" (ESSAY, Aug. 11), Ezra Bowen has wrenched quotations from context and twisted history to attack the importance I have attributed to recovering a jurisprudence of original constitutional meaning. In so doing, TIME has overlooked the central issue -- whether a judge or Justice should interpret the Constitution according to its text, structure and history, or may a judge or Justice set these aside in order to effect his own vision of the good society. The...
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