By Katie Nelson

If there was one phrase Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia could eliminate from our vocabulary, it would be "living constitution." "God, I hate that phrase," Scalia said. "I prefer 'enduring Constitution.' " Scalia spoke to a full house at Santa Clara University on Wednesday, a place familiar to the nearly 30-year Supreme Court Justice.

He and his wife, Maureen, got married in the chapel on the campus, he noted, and one of his sons graduated from the university in the late 1980s. Scalia did not shy away from making jokes. But he was also more than willing to tackle justice and constitutional law in America, speaking frankly about whether the Constitution had flexibility in its interpretations. 

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