Pulitzer Prize winning historian Jack Rakove of Stanford discusses the U.S. Constitution and the concept of originalism, or how true we should constrain ourselves to the original meaning of the Constitution.
A Conversation on Judicial Interpretation
Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Antonin Scalia and a group of students discuss the different theories, primarily Originalism vs. The Living Constitution, of how to interpret and apply the Constitution to cases. A PDF lesson guide accompanies this video