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Constitutional illusions and anchoring truths : the touchstone of the natural law /

This book stands against the current of judgments long settled in the schools of law in regard to classic cases such as Lochner volume New York, Near volume Minnesota, the Pentagon Papers case, and Bob Jones University volume United States. Professor Hadley Arkes takes as his subject concepts long r...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Arkes, Hadley
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the anchoring common sense and the puzzles of the law
  • On the novelties of an old constitution : settled principles and unsettling surprises
  • The natural law--again, ever
  • Lochner and the cast of our law
  • The strange case of prior restraint : the Pentagon Papers
  • Near revisited
  • The saga of Frank Snepp and the new regime of previous restraints
  • And yet ... a good word on behalf of the legal positivists
  • Conclusion and afterword.