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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. I...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strauss, David A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Colección:Inalienable rights series.
Temas:
Constitutional law > United States.
Law > United States > Interpretation and construction.
Common law > United States > Methodology.
Constitutional history > United States.
Droit > États-Unis > Interprétation.
Common law > États-Unis > Méthodologie.
Histoire constitutionnelle > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Law > Interpretation and construction
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
Verfassung.
Grundlagar > Förenta staterna.
Statsrätt > Förenta staterna.
United States
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: do we want a living constitution?
  • Originalism and its sins
  • The common law
  • Freedom of speech and the living constitution
  • Brown v. Board of Education and innovation in the living constitution (with a note on Roe v. Wade)
  • The role of the written constitution: common ground and Jefferson's problem
  • Constitutional amendments and the living constitution.

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