Government officials take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution before they take office, yet conservatives and liberals often have considerably different views on how to interpret the US Constitution. Do we interpret it in the context of when passages were ratified? Does the meaning change as society and times change? Today looks into the origins and development of the debate over how to interpret the US Constitution, the arguments between the two basic schools of thought known as "Originalism" and "Living Constitutionalism," and how both ideologies have shaped historical and contemporary US Supreme Court cases.

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(0:00) Introduction and today's topic

(1:09) Origins and development of the Constitutional interpretation debate

(7:38) Interpretation philosophies: Originalism vs. Living Constitutionalism

(9:19) The label of "Judicial Activism"

(12:39) Other court cases where SCOTUS reversed precedent

(15:13) Originalists' Arguments

(16:12) Living Constitutionalists' Arguments

(17:56) Random question of the day

(19:46) Social media and my book