“Words do have a limited range of meaning, and no interpretation that goes beyond that range is permissible.”

—  Antonin Scalia

Speech at Princeton University (1995), as quoted in a Scalia profile published by The Christian Science Monitor http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/03/03/us/us.3.html.
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