Originalism and the good constitution /

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John McGinnis and Michael Rappaport argue that the text of the Constitution and its Amendments should be adhered to by the Supreme Court because it was enacted by supermajorities. A text approved by supermajorities has special value in a democracy because it has unusually wide support and tends to m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: McGinnis, John O., 1957- (Autor), Rappaport, Michael B., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Constitutional law > United States.
Constitutional law > Philosophy.
Origin (Philosophy)
Judicial review > United States.
Droit constitutionnel > Philosophie.
Origine (Philosophie)
Contrôle juridictionnel des lois > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Legal History.
Constitutional law
Constitutional law > Philosophy
Judicial review
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Originalism : Its Discontents and the Supermajoritarian Solution
  • The Nature of the Argument
  • The Supermajoritarian Theory of Constitutionalism
  • The Compliance of the US Constitution with Desirable Supermajority Rules
  • The Continuing Desirability of an Old Supermajoritarian Constitution
  • Supermajoritarian Failure, Including the Exclusion of African Americans and Women
  • Original Methods Originalism
  • Original Methods versus Constitutional Construction
  • Precedent, Originalism, and the Constitution
  • The Normative Theory of Precedent
  • Imagining an Originalist Future.

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