CAC President Explains “New Textualism” at Brookings Debate
On July 18, 2011, the Brookings Institution hosted a debate between Constitutional Accountability Center President Doug Kendall and University of Chicago Law Professor Geof Stone on how progressives can take back the Constitution from conservatives. Kendall argued that progressives should root constitutional interpretation in the Constitution’s text and history first and foremost.
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