I think I first heard the term in my high school civics class. Or maybe it was in Poli Sci 101 in college. For sure, professor Nathaniel Nathanson discussed them, though most disdainfully, in my constitutional law class at Northwestern.I am referring to what I had learned were “strict constructionists” — those judges who viewed the U.S. Constitution precisely as written, interpreting it in a literal and narrow meaning of the language, without regard to how circumstances and conditions of modern society …