UID:
edocfu_9959228313602883
Format:
1 online resource (220 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-771871-X
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1-280-47095-X
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0-19-535356-0
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1-60256-244-X
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Has constitutional law become merely the confused but self-important incantations of a secular priesthood? This volume offers an iconoclastic assessment of American constitutionalists from Madison and Jefferson to Dworkin and Bork, as well as a provocative overview of both the aspirations and the tragic failures of American constitutionalism.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1998.
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Contents; Introduction: The Constitution of Reason; One: Old Bags and New Wine: The Reason of the Founders; Two: The Special Dispensation of Reason and the Legal Constitution; Three: The Framers' Fatal Flaw; Four: From the Legalistic Constitution to the Constitution of Principle; Five: After the Fall: Regulatory Reason; Six: Constitutional Reasoning, Constitutional Sophistry; Seven: Rationalizing the Constitution; Epilogue: The Constitution of Babel; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-585-21176-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-511747-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195117479.001.0001
