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100			_aMcDowell Gary L
245			_aThe language of law and the foundations of American constitutionalism
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c2010
300			_a409p _cix
365			_b Rs. 1,573
505			_aTable 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;
650			_a1. Constitutional Law - U S A
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