Living originalism /

Rejecting the false dichotomy between constitutional originalism and theories of the living constitution, Balkin (constitutional law, Yale Law School) offers a theory of "framework originalism" that views the US Constitution "as an initial framework for governance that sets politics i...

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Main Author: Balkin, J. M
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Table of Contents:
  • Fidelity
  • Fidelity to text and principle
  • Framework originalism
  • Why original meaning?
  • Basic law, higher law, our law
  • Constitutional faith and constitutional redemption
  • Originalisms
  • Precedents and pragmatic exceptions
  • Construction
  • A platform for persuasion
  • Commerce
  • Privileges or immunities
  • Equality before the law
  • Texts and principles
  • Change
  • Rethinking living constitutionalism
  • Change and legitimacy