Constitutional protections . . . should not depend merely on a strict
construction that may allow 'technicalities of form to dictate consequences of
substance.' As the Court remarked in the leading contract clause case of this
century [Blasidell], 'where constitutional grants and limitations
Title: Is Roberts a Strict Constructionist?
Marty quotes a passage from
Roberts's casenote accept the Blaisdell majority's description ofthe
Contracts Clause as one of the Constitution's "general clauses, which afford a
broad outline" and therefore require "constructio
