The failed promise of originalism /
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Author / Creator: | Cross, Frank B. |
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Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013. |
Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169386 |
ISBN: | 9780804784696 0804784698 9780804783828 9780804785075 0804783829 0804785074 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary: | Originalism is an enormously popular-and equally criticized-theory of constitutional interpretation. As Elena Kagan stated at her confirmation hearing, ""We are all originalists."" Scores of articles have been written on whether the Court should use originalism, and some have examined how the Court employed originalism in particular cases, but no one has studied the overall practice of originalism. The primary point of this book is an examination of the degree to which originalism influences the Court's decisions. Frank B. Cross tests this by examining whether originalism appears t. |
Other form: | Print version: Cross, Frank B. Failed promise of originalism. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2013 |
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