September 17, 2019

How Should We Interpret the Constitution?


ACS Board Chair and Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan discusses constitutional interpretation in this 9-minute video. The questions Karlan explores include:

  • The multiple approaches to interpreting the Constitution.
  • The fact that there was not a single framing of the Constitution.
  • Whose responsibility it is to interpret the Constitution.

Related Resources:

Expert Forum Blog by Erwin Chemerinsky, ACS Board of Directors: A Progressive Vision of the Constitution

Expert Forum Blog by Jamal Greene, ACS Board of Academic Advisors: Trump's Judge Whisperer Promised to Take Our Laws Back to the 1930s