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Constitutional interpretation : the basic questions / Sotirios A. Barber and James E. Fleming.
- Title
- Constitutional interpretation : the basic questions / Sotirios A. Barber and James E. Fleming.
- Author
- Barber, Sotirios A.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Fleming, James E.
- Description
- xvi, 201 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Ronald Dworkin famously argued that fidelity in interpreting the Constitution as written calls for a fusion of constitutional law and moral philosophy. Barber and Fleming take up that call, arguing for a philosophic approach to constitutional interpretation.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The presuppositions of constitutional interpretation -- The principal questions of constitutional interpretation -- The principal features of the American constitutional order : the positive constitutionalism of The federalist -- Approaches to constitutional interpretation -- Textualism and consensualism -- Narrow originalism/intentionalism -- Broad originalism -- Structuralism -- Doctrinalism and minimalism -- The philosophic approach -- Pragmatism -- Epilogue: a fusion of approaches to constitutional interpretation.
- ISBN
- 9780195328578 (cloth)
- 0195328574 (cloth)
- 9780195328585 (pbk.)
- 0195328582 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006938845
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library