# Justices Kagan and Scalia

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**Created:** [January 12, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justices-kagan-and-scalia/567368 "2011-01-12T18:23:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justices-kagan-and-scalia/567368/60 "2011-01-12T22:31:57Z")

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It seems Scalia himself thinks he is an Originalist:

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> _Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the following remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2005._
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> I am one of a small number of judges, small number of anybody — judges, professors, lawyers — who are known as originalists. Our manner of interpreting the Constitution is to begin with the text, and to give that text the meaning that it bore when it was adopted by the people.
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> SOURCE: [http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/guest\_commentary/scalia-constitutional-speech.htm](http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/guest_commentary/scalia-constitutional-speech.htm)

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