Danielle Allen, a professor at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, believes that the period after “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” was a mistake. It should be a comma. The next word in Jefferson’s draft version is not capitalized, which would indicate to any reader that the preceding punctuation was not a period. It reads, “that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” ... What about that, Justice Scalia, i.e., with respect to constitutional Originalism? ...
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 21:55:27 +0000