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McDowell Gary L

The language of law and the foundations of American constitutionalism - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010 - 409p ix

Table of Contents:
Preface;
Acknowledgments;
Introduction:
The Politics of Original Intention;
The Constitution and the Scholarly Tradition: Recovering the Founders's Constituion;
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;
Index;


ISBN: 9780521192897

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Constitutional Law - U S A

Dewey Class. No.: 342.7302 / MCD