An article from last October's "Keeping Faith with the Constitution in Changing Times" symposium, co-sponsored by Constitutional Interpretation and Change Issue Group and Vanderbilt University Law School. The symposium was held at Vanderbilt University Law School in October 2006.

In Originalism and the Living Constitution: Reconciliation, Kermit Roosevelt, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, analyzes the debate between “originalists and living constitutionalists [which] is generally considered one of the most important current battles over how the Constitution should be interpreted.” Professor Roosevelt states that the significance of the debate is “drastically overstated,” demonstrating that “with respect to the most interesting and controversial constitutional provisions, the two approaches can be synthesized; that is, they should lead to the same interpretive results.”