Originalism or Century of Genocide

Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate

Author: Steven G Calabresi

What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country. Inside you'll find:

A foreword by Justice Antonin Scalia and speeches by former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Justice William Brennan, Judge Robert H. Bork, and President Ronald Reagan

Transcripts from panel discussions and debates engaging some of the brightest legal minds of our time in frank, open discussions about the original meaning of the Constitution of the United States and its impact on the rule of law in our country

A debate on the original meaning of the Commerce, Spending, and Necessary and Proper Clauses

Concluding thoughts by Theodore Olson, forty-second solicitor general of the United States and a fellow at both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers

Originalism: a Quarter-Century of Debate is a lively and fascinating discussion of an issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in America, and one that continues to elicit strong reactions from both those who support and those who oppose the rule of law. Steven G. Calabresi, co-founder of the Federalist Society and professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, has compiled an impressive collection of speeches, panel discussions, and debates from some of the greatest and most prominent legal experts of the last twenty-five years.

Table of Contents:

Introduction   Professor Steven G. Calabresi     1
Foreword   Justice Antonin Scalia     43
Part I
Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the American Bar Association     47
Speech by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., at Georgetown University     55
Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, before the Federalist Society Lawyers Division     71
Speech by Judge Robert H. Bork at the University of San Diego Law School     83
Speech by President Ronald Reagan at the Swearing in of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Antonin Scalia     95
Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III, at Tulane University, 1986     99
Part II
Panel on Originalism and Unenumerated Constitutional Rights   Professor Suzanna Sherry   Professor Walter Dellinger   Professor John Harrison   Professor Lino Graglia   Judge Michael W. McComell   Diane P. Wood     113
Panel on Originalism and Pragmatism   Dean Larry Kramer   Judge Frank Easterbrook   Professors John O. McGinnis   Michael Rappaport   Professor Jeffrey Rosen   Douglas H. Ginsburg     151
Panel on Originalism and Precedent   Professor Steven G. Calabresi   Professor Akhil Reed Amar   Professor DavidStrauss   Professor Thomas W. Merrill   Justice Stephen J. Markman   Steven G. Calabresi     199
Debate on the Original Meaning of the Commerce, Spending, and Necessary and Proper Clauses   Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen   Professor Randy E. Barnett   Barrington D. Parker, Jr.     253
Debate on Radicals in Robes   Professor Cass Sunstein   Mr. Charles J. Cooper   Steven G. Calabresi     287
Speech to the 2005 Federalist Society Lawyers Division   Edwin Meese, III     317
Concluding Thoughts   Mr. Theodore B. Olson     333
List of Contributors     337
Acknowledgments     339
Notes     341
Index     347

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Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views

Author: Samuel Totten

In 1994 Rwandan government forces slaughtered between 800,000 to one million people, mostly Tutsis, and many thousands of moderate Hutus. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge killed approximately 1.7 million people - more than twenty percent of its own population - in just four years. Time and again, throughout the 20th Century, various groups of people-such as the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, the Kurds in Northern Iraq, the Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, and the Muslims in the former Yugoslavia-have been targeted for elimination for various reasons (extremist ideology, ethnic animosity, and a diabolical regard for human life).

Despite the scale of these killings, there are those who try to minimize the impact of genocide. Through scholarly analyses and historical data, and eyewitness accounts, the contributors to this volume delineate the antecedents to and the causes and results of genocide in the twentieth century. In doing so, they provide compelling evidence that rebuts the convoluted and fallacious notions often created by cynics, deniers and "interpreters" who try to shape historical events to fit their own purposes.

The second edition will contain new chapters on the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and the mass killing of the Kurds in Iraq, and the intervention and prevention of genocide, as well as updated information on the majority of the genocides examined in this book. Also includes 14 maps.