Antonin Scalia’s Constitutional Textualism: The Problem of Justice to Posterity by Bruce E. Auerbach, Michelle Reinhart

“…Antonin Scalia defends his textualist approach to interpreting the Constitution by asserting that the purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the range of options open to future generations by enshrining institutional arrangements and practices in constitutional mandates or prohibitions. …”
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Why So Silent? The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment Debate After DC v. Heller by Emma Long

“…But as the debate about gun rights returned to the top of the political agenda in the United States as a result of a series of high profile mass shootings in 2015 and the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, two things became clear: that Heller had not ended the political or legal debate about Second Amendment rights and that the Supreme Court had been noticeably absent from the debate since applying the Heller ruling to the states in McDonald v. …”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…Recommended literature Auerbach, Bruce / Reinhart, Michelle (2012): Antonin Scalia’s constitutional textualism: The problem of justice to posterity. …”
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