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The language of law and the foundations of American constitutionalism /
For much of its history, the interpretation of the United States Constitution presupposed judges seeking the meaning of the text and the original intentions behind that text, a process that was deemed by Chief Justice John Marshall to be 'the most sacred rule of interpretation'. Since the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The politics of original intention
- The Constitution and the scholarly tradition : recovering the founders' constitution
- Nature and the language of law : Thomas Hobbes and the foundations of modern constitutionalism
- Language, law, and liberty : John Locke and the structures of modern constitutionalism
- The limits of natural law : modern constitutionalism and the science of interpretation
- The greatest improvement on political institutions : natural rights, the intentions of the people, and written constitutions
- Chains of the Constitution : Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the "political metaphysics" of strict construction
- The most sacred rule of interpretation : John Marshall, originalism, and the limits of judicial power
- The same yesterday, today, and forever : Joseph Story and the permanence of constitutional meaning
- Epilogue: The moral foundations of originalism.