Format:
Online Ressource (xviii, 150 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780199703692
,
0199703698
Series Statement:
Inalienable rights series
Content:
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.
Content:
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. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and other "originalists," explaining in clear, jargon-free English how the Constitution can sensibly evolve, without falling into the anythi
Note:
Includes index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
1282543830
Additional Edition:
9781282543836
Additional Edition:
9786612543838
Additional Edition:
6612543833
Additional Edition:
9780195377279
Additional Edition:
0195377273
Additional Edition:
9780195377279
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strauss, David A Living Constitution Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
Language:
English
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