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→Living Constitution: Debate with Breyer
However, at talk at [[Princeton University]], Scalia explained that the Constitution is not living nor dead, but rather it is enduring.<ref>[https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S35/52/39O50/index.xml?section=featured Scalia favors 'enduring,' not living, Constitution]</ref> He described the Constitution that way on a routine basis.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/05/23/a-speechless-scalia-puts-unlikely-spin-on-his-conservatism/3827dda8-f695-429e-ad13-3c9ec244ccb1/ A Speechless Scalia Puts Unlikely 'Spin' On His Conservatism], [[Washington Post]]</ref>
However, at talk at [[Princeton University]], Scalia explained that the Constitution is not living nor dead, but rather it is enduring.<ref>[https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S35/52/39O50/index.xml?section=featured Scalia favors 'enduring,' not living, Constitution]</ref> He described the Constitution that way on a routine basis.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/05/23/a-speechless-scalia-puts-unlikely-spin-on-his-conservatism/3827dda8-f695-429e-ad13-3c9ec244ccb1/ A Speechless Scalia Puts Unlikely 'Spin' On His Conservatism], [[Washington Post]]</ref>
In a debate with [[Stephen Breyer]], Scalia brought up a line from the case [[Trop v. Dulles]] which is frequently used. The case references "the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society", to which Scalia said:
<blockquote>I detest that phrase, because I'm afraid that societies don't always mature. Sometimes they rot. What makes you think that human history is one upwardly inclined plane: every day, in every way, we get better and better? It seems to me that the purpose of the Bill of Rights was to prevent change, not to foster change and have it written into a Constitution.<ref>[https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/3/4/519/791958/The-relevance-of-foreign-legal-materials-in-U-S The relevance of foreign legal materials in U.S. constitutional cases: A conversation between Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Stephen Breyer]</ref></blockquote>
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