“If the most solemnly and democratically adopted text of the Constitution and its Amendments can be ignored on the basis of current values,” Justice Antonin Scalia wondered during a 1988 speech in Cincinnati that would later form a law review article entitled “Originalism: The Lesser Evil,” then “what possible basis could there be for enforced adherence to a legal decision of the Supreme Court?” This take-no-prisoners approach to the Constitution characterized Scalia’s uncompromising commitment to the truth: discerning and applying to modern circumstances the original public meaning of our founding document.