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The language of law and the foundations of American constitutionalism

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Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010Description: 409p ixISBN:
  • 9780521192897
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.7302 MCD
Contents:
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;
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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;