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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave a speech defending the Supreme Court's use of foreign law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution.(The Week)(Brief article)

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* Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave a speech defending the Supreme Court's use of foreign law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution. "The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially fi-ozen in time as of the date of its ratification," she said. And she's right: Both of these notions are caricatures of conservative propositions that are rooted in a concern for self-government. The discretion of judges to amend the Constitution through creative interpretation has to be limited so that Americans can remain governed by the Constitution they ...

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