Abstract

These comments on Tara Smith's book Judicial Review in An Objective Legal System were prepared for a panel at the American Philosophical Association's Ayn Rand Society. They challenge the interaction between political values and linguistic meaning in Smith's theory, asks whether objectivity does a better job than original meaning in understanding constitutional clauses like the Commerce Clause, and asks whether there is anything wrong in regarding a judge as engaged in a creative act.

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