Word: constructionists
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...Souter won't graft current ideas or social concerns onto constitutional law." In a dissent he wrote in 1986, Souter said "the court's interpretive task is to determine the meaning of . . . ((constitutional language)) as it was understood when the framers proposed it." A judge cannot be more strict constructionist than that. On the other hand, Roe v. Wade does constitute precedent, another principle the conservative Souter holds dear. Says Fink: "He really reveres the law. He's not someone who's coming from his personal opinions and then twists the law accordingly...