Format:
Online-Ressource (327 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780739100417
Content:
Written by one of America's foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of 'original intent.' According to legal scholars such as Judge Robert Bork, Lino Gralia, Charles Cooper, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a jurisprudence of original intent requires that judges bring no theory to the interpretation of the Constitution. In this brilliant new book, Harry Jaffa illustrates how judges under the influence of this definition of 'original' intent particularly neglect the Declaration of Indep
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Description based upon print version of record
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Harry Jaffa and Original Intent Jurisprudence; The Closing of the Conservative Mind: A Dissenting Opinion on Judge Robert H. Bork; Whatever Happened to the Emperor's Clothes? Jaffa Replies to Bork; Appendix to Whatever Happened to the Emperor's Clothes?; I.; II.; III.; Natural Law, the Constitution, and Robert Bork; The Inkblot Constitution; Is the Constitution Good? (And If So, Why?); Graglia's Quarrel with God: Atheism and Nihilism Masquerading as Constitutional Argument; Appendix
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Slaying the Dragon of Bad Originalism: Jaffa Answers CooperEpilogue; "The Whole Theory of Democracy": Antonin Scalia, Meet James Madison and Friends; Afterword; About the Author
Additional Edition:
9780739161357
Additional Edition:
Print version Storm Over the Constitution
Language:
English
Keywords:
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