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Do Conservatives Follow the Framers -- or the French?

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, Conservatives, Courts, Reagan, Strict Constructionist, French Revoultion, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Nicholas Stephanopoulos

It is no coincidence that American conservatives now sound like French revolutionaries when they talk about legal issues.

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Right to Privacy and Strict Constructionist Republicans

Donnie Fowler | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Originalist, Strict Constructionist, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Donnie Fowler

What they say: Republicans say they hate government but also claim to be strict constructionists when it comes to the Constitution, but when it comes ...

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"Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down

Michele Swenson | Posted 11.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Conscience Clauses, Personhood Amendments, Contraception as Abortion, Religious Right Christianity, Anti-Abortion Initiatives, One-Family-One-Vote, Paul Weyrich, Fourteenth Amendment Rights, Mccain, Obama, Howard Phillips, Strict Constructionist, Ninth Amendment, Home News
Michele Swenson

The "right-to-life" movement that elevates embryonic life above women's lives is more accurately termed "right-to-prenatal-life." Aside from South Dak...

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How Progressives Take Back the Constitution

Doug Kendall | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Strict Constructionist, Polling, Judicial Nominations, Mellman, Constitution, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics News
Doug Kendall

Conservatives have learned how to talk about judicial nominations and the future of the Supreme Court in ways that rally the base while not alienating the political center, and progressives haven't mastered this trick.

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A McCain Court: Likely Less Than Maverick

Alexander Heffner | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home

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Alexander Heffner

Presidential candidate McCain has pledged to appoint strict constructionists to the high court-- conservatives who would attack the kind of "maverick" legislation McCain has so famously backed.

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