Source: Law & Liberty
by John G Grove
“‘Strict construction’ is a taboo phrase, not just for judicial activists looking for unlimited government, but also for most originalists. Perhaps that is because the phrase can mean several different things; or perhaps it is a concession to the reality of the expansive national state in the twentieth century, as if to say Yes, I want to impose some limits, but I’m not one of those crazies. Or, as Antonin Scalia was often known to quip, ‘I am a textualist. I am an originalist. I am not a nut.’ It is therefore a daring endeavor to put forward an entire, clause-by-clause guide to the Constitution explicitly committed to strict construction. That is what William J. Watkins Jr. of the Independent Institute has done with The Independent Guide to the Constitution.” (06/09/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/a-strict-construction-handbook/