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" The Dominicans count among their order the great St. Thomas Aquinas, author of the magisterial tract Summa Theologiae and one of the most important theologians in the history of the Catholic Church. Naturally, my father took the opportunity to criticize the saint’s approach to legal interpretation, going so far as to read a passage from Aquinas and comparing it to something an activist judge would have written. "

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Antonin Scalia quote : The Dominicans count among their order the great St. Thomas Aquinas, author of the magisterial tract Summa Theologiae and one of the most important theologians in the history of the Catholic Church. Naturally, my father took the opportunity to criticize the saint’s approach to legal interpretation, going so far as to read a passage from Aquinas and comparing it to something an activist judge would have written.