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Desperately seeking certainty : the misguided quest for constitutional foundations /

Irreverent, provocative, and engaging, Desperately Seeking Certainty attacks the current legal vogue for grand unified theories of constitutional interpretation. On both the Right and the Left, prominent legal scholars are attempting to build all of constitutional law from a single foundational idea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farber, Daniel A., 1950-
Otros Autores: Sherry, Suzanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; 1. Of Law and Latkes; 2. In the Beginning:Robert Bork and Other Originalists; 3. The Formalist Crusade of Antonin Scalia; 4. Richard Epstein and the Incredible Shrinking Government; 5. Akhil Amar and the People's Court; 6. Bruce Ackerman's Magic Amendment Machine; 7. Ronald Dworkin and the City on the Hill; 8. Dethroning Grand Theory; Appendix; Notes; Index.