The living Constitution /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Inalienable rights series.
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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.