Keeping faith with the Constitution / Goodwin Liu, Pamela S. Karlan, Christopher H. Schroeder.
Material type: TextSeries: Inalienable rights seriesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199750665
- 0199750661
- 9780199752836
- 0199752834
- 342.7302 22
- KF4550.Z9 L578 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Constitution's vision and values -- Judicial interpretation of the Constitution -- Equality -- Freedom of speech -- Promoting the general welfare -- Separation of powers -- Democracy -- Criminal justice -- Liberty -- Progress and possibilities.
Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been supplanted by originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed as it was in the eighteenth century--that judges must adhere to the original understandings of the fo.
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