Memory and authority the uses of history in constitutional interpretation
"From one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars, a sweeping rethinking of the uses of history in constitutional interpretation. Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court’s current embrace of originalism is only...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2024]
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| Colección: | Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I Making Historical Arguments
- 1. Arguing with History
- 2. History and the Forms of Constitutional Argument
- 3. How Modality Shapes History
- 4. Arguments from National Ethos, Political Tradition, and Honored Authority
- Part II Originalism and Living Constitutionalism
- 5. Twins Separated at Birth
- 6. Why Are Americans Originalist?
- Part III Interpretation and Construction
- 7. Living Originalism
- 8. Why It's Better to Be Thin
- 9. Making Originalist Arguments
- 10. Originalist Arguments for Everyone
- Part IV Constitutional Memories
- 11. The Power of Memory and Erasure
- 12. Constitutional Memory and Constitutional Interpretation
- 13. Expanding Constitutional Memory
- Part V Lawyers and Historians
- 14. Historians Meet the Modalities
- 15. The Special Skill and Knowledge of Lawyers
- 16. Lawyers' Need for a Usable Past
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
