First Things RSS Feed - Antonin Scalia https://www.firstthings.com/author/antonin-scalia en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:35 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/antonin-scalia 60 A Nation Under God https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/04/a-nation-under-god https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/04/a-nation-under-god Tue, 09 Apr 2019 06:00:00 -0400 Our country has a long tradition of official encouragement of religion on a non-sectarian basis. That tradition reflects the understanding of the nation’s founders that, as George Washington declared in his Farewell Address, religion and morality are “indispensable supports” of “political prosperity” and that we should “with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.”

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]]> Law & Language https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/11/law--language-26 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/11/law--language-26 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0500 Law’s Quandary
by Steven D. Smith
Harvard University press, 222 pages, $45


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]]> God’s Justice and Ours https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/05/gods-justice-and-ours https://www.firstthings.com/article/2002/05/gods-justice-and-ours Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400 Before proceeding to discuss the morality of capital punishment, I want to make clear that my views on the subject have nothing to do with how I vote in capital cases that come before the Supreme Court. That statement would not be true if I subscribed to the conventional fallacy that the Constitution is a “living document”—that is, a text that means from age to age whatever the society (or perhaps the Court) thinks it ought to mean.

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