"A Living Constitution Doesn't Exist"

"I'm what you call an `originalist,' one who believes the Constitution should be interpreted exactly as it was adopted,"

"It should be interpreted as it was written - nothing more, nothing less.Rights do not grow smaller or larger. Some legal experts say you have to interpret the Constitution broadly,but that's not true under any circumstance."

"The Constitution is not a living document. It's a legal document, and legal documents do not change."

"But we must apply the words as they were originally written and we must be bound by their original meaning. We must think of what the words are and what the words meant when the people adopted them.

"The Constitution doesn't `morph' to be what we want it to be."

~ Justice Antonin Scalia, from a speech at Texas A&M University May 2005