A debt against the living an introduction to originalism
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison is often quoted for the proposition that we should not be bound to the 'dead hand of the past', suggesting that the Constitution should instead be interpreted as a living, breathing document....
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New York :
Cambridge University Press
cop. 2017
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009178219708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Origins of Originalism
- The Meaning of Meaning
- Constitutional Legitimacy
- The Founders on Founding
- Interpreting the Constitution
- Lawyers as Historians
- Brown v. Board and Originalism
- A Coda on Nonoriginalisms
- Epilogue.
