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Distinguished American Speaker Series
Antonin Scalia --Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia met a high-level
audience of 30 Israeli experts drawn from the Knesset, the courts,
academia, and NGOs on January 30, 2006 at the residence of Ambassador
Richard Jones and his wife Joan Jones. The evening was one of several
events organized to mark the 50th anniversary of the Fulbright exchange
program in Israel, and was also part of the Ambassador's Distinguished
American Speaker Series. The audience listened attentively to Justice
Scalia's warm, heartfelt presentation in which he articulated his deep,
personal respect for the brilliant scholarly minds that framed the U.S.
Constitution. Justice Scalia, visiting Israel as guest of the U.S.-Israel
Educational Foundation/Fulbright-Israel, expounded on his longstanding
belief that courts and judges have a limited role in the three-branch
system of U.S. government established by the Constitution's framers.
Justice Scalia also spoke about his "textualist/originalist" approach to
interpretation of the Constitution. His remarks spurred a discussion that
allowed for comparisons between legal approaches in Israel and the U.S.
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